A mum has told of her heartbreak after her twin boys were 'robbed of their smile' by an incurable disease. Oscar and Sebastian Spink, 11, suffer from a rare form of muscular dystrophy.
The twins, from Lymm in Cheshire, were diagnosed with Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in July 2019, CheshireLive reports.
The disorder usually presents itself from teenage years onwards. But Oscar and Sebastian have extremely rare early onset or infantile FSHD.
It affects one in 200,000 people and only five to 10 per cent of people with the condition. Read more: Mum, 19, stabbed friend and left him for dead after she hit the roof at him spending the night with her boyfriend's former lover Despite suffering since birth, they were only diagnosed at nine.
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