A local family here in the Treasure Valley, Karia & Ryan Stockdale, will have a new home by next week with the help of ABC’s ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.’ The show has teamed up with Corey Barton Homes (CBH), a local builder who has been around for quite some time and made it rich off of all the Californians moving up looking for cheap homes. Oh, I don’t mean ‘cheap’ – I mean they cost less than in California. And folks are moving from elsewhere of course because they’ve heard of our dry heat. 
Forgive the digression – oooppsss . . . . but seriously – this family is truly in desperate need. New West has a story and CBH’s web site has the particulars. The ABC affiliate in Boise KIVI has video.
Ryan Stockdale, a 26-year-old Boise State University student majoring in biology, and his wife, Karia, have four children, all of whom suffer from a rare medical condition known as eosinophilic enteropathy. It is a white blood cell disease that attacks proteins and prevents the ingestion and digestion of food and also affects and causes disease of the lungs, kidneys, blood, intestines, and immune system.
Eosinophilic enteropathy is classified as “rare disease” by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) – which is part of National Institutes of Health, and by the standard set, this means the disorder or disease “affects less than 200,000 people in the US population. ” And all four of this family’s children have eosinophilic enteropathy. This is where all the TV types come in as evidenced in this interview with Pennington, which I actually found touching.
Filed under: Media exploitation, Medicine
