Town Throws Parade For 3-Year-Old Boy Doctors Said Wouldn’t Live Past His 2nd Birthday

(CNN) — Brittany Stineman was told her son wouldn’t make it to see his second birthday. But little Nash turned 3, and they celebrated by throwing him a birthday parade.
Nash has a rare neuromuscular disease known as SMARD, or spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress. The disease causes muscular weakness and a sudden inability to breathe in infants. It has no cure or treatment.
Because of his weakened immune system, Nash cannot be around many people to have what some may thin