Peyton was born a beautiful, healthy 6 pounds on July 2, 2010. It didn’t take long for us to begin to realize our princess was having feeding issues and wasn’t hitting any of her milestones. At 8 months she was diagnosed with failure to thrive and that began our journey. Two years and 13 specialists later, Peyton was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease. Along with her feeding issues, Peyton suffers from seizures, severe muscle pain, hypotonia, trunk weakness, encephalopathy, ptosis, chronic staph infections, vision loss, hearing loss, facial dysmorphism, severe constipation, heart murmur, enlarged liver, chronic fatigue and others all due to mito.
We are extremely proud of our little fighter and are committed to raising awareness and finding cures for mito and epilepsy.
DEC