Bay Ridge parents seek cure for son’s rare disease
Dayna Scarso knew something was wrong with her two-year-old son Pietro when she took him to the playground near her Bay Ridge home last year. “In the park, he was just slower than the other boys,” she told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “And I noticed that he had a lot of trouble climbing up stairs,” she said.
But Pietro seemed so normal in other ways. He has an easy laugh, displays a curiosity about the things around him, and is affectionate with Scarso and her husband Mannie. “He’s awesome. He has a good heart,” his mom said.
Convinced that their son’s physical slowness was a sign of something wrong, the Scarsos took him from doctor to doctor, none of whom pinpointed anything wrong with the toddler.