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If you are a parent of a little one, you know all about the dreaded hand, foot, and mouth disease. The little virus makes kiddos miserable, takes a long time to fully run its course, and is insanely contagious.
On Halloween of 2014, at 18 months old, after not so much as a small cough throughout his life, Jasper Thornton Jones caught the nasty virus. At the time, his parents, Felix and Kate, accepted the diagnosis and prepared to hunker down for a week or so as it worked its way through Jasper’s body. They had no idea the common virus can have serious complications.
Within a few days, Jasper seemed to be back to himself. But not long after Christmas of 2014, his heart stopped and he was put on life support. Unbeknownst to Felix and Kate, (and probably the majority of parents) the...