- “Probably after her first birthday, we were really optimistic,” Johnson said.
- Last year, The Dispatch wrote about Tenley on her first birthday .
- Tenley is undergoing experimental gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.
- And there was Lacretia Johnson, posting early-morning birthday wishes for her miracle baby on the Team Tenley Facebook page: “You did it!
- Enlarge Image Request to buy this photo Barbara J. Perenic | Dispatch Tenley Johnson celebrates her second birthday with a cake in her hospital bed at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
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Tenley Johnson turned 2 recently, and for her, it was probably no big deal. A room of people sang to her. Balloons bobbed around her tiny body. She slurped on a stick of candy nearly as long as her arm. There were presents and cake and sparkly shoes. But her mom sat just a few feet from the girl’s hospital bed on June 17 and said what a lot of people were thinking: “It’s a huge deal.” Lacretia Johnson has heard more than once that her young daughter was going to die.
2-year-old undergoing experimental therapy defies the odds
