A family is calling on their fellow North Carolinians to help save their daughter’s life.
HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — A Holly Springs family is calling on their fellow North Carolinians to help save their daughter’s life.
Charlotte Akers was diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) when she was only a week old. The rare genetic condition prevents the body from building its own immune system.
Now at five months old, her parents shared she is given between 5-7 different medications a day to protect against different germs.
“Most new parents when they have kids, they have family members come and help and they have friends – we weren’t allowed to have any of that,” shared Charlotte’s mother Lindsay. “Anyone who came and visit had to either go through a quarantine or had to gown, glove and mask.”
Both parents now work remotely and rarely leave their home. Lindsay described they must live “like COVID, but we’re the only ones participating.”
