Georgia Pirovolakis and son Michael/Toronto.com
Reporter Joanna Lavoie updates the hard battle fought by the Pirovolakis family as they raise funds for an experimental therapy to stop, or cure, their toddler son’s rare disease. It is spastic paraplegia type 50 known to observant Leaside and East York residents as SPG50. Lawn signs urging people to help cure the affliction are seen everywhere. Some $3 million is needed with about one million already raised.
