Brannigan thinks the lack of treatments available to children like Hasti is because they're not profitable. By Steve Pasternak for Maplewood, New Jersey, Patch (Photo courtesy of Beloved Bath)Ĭhris Brannigan took off his shoes earlier this year and started a 1,200-mile walk along the East Coast to raise awareness of the rare and debilitating genetic disease Cornelia de Lange syndrome and to raise money for his 9-year-old daughter Hasti's treatment. The boys began experimenting with their own bath salts and, in 2016, their mothers helped them turn it into the online business Beloved Bath, which addresses the difficulties people living on the spectrum have in finding jobs, and partners with vocational programs that help people like their sons. They shared grains of wisdom, including the advice of an occupational therapist who told Kattouf that lavender bath salts would help her son feel calmer, more centered and happier. Pam Kattouf and Patricia Miller met on the playground more than 20 years ago when their children were toddlers, a few years before both boys were diagnosed with autism.
By Alexis Tarrazi for Warren, New Jersey, Patch It got up to my chest," said Rotondo, adding he "literally saw death before my eyes." And then a mystery man appeared, extending his arm like the lifeline it was. Do I leave the vehicle? I decided I wouldn't as long as it didn't get past my neck, I was good. "So what do you do? I had to make a choice. "I just want to say thank you," says Joseph Rotondo, a Warren, New Jersey, man who found himself trapped in a Jeep as Hurricane Ida floodwaters rose, eventually to his chest. Finally, I just didn't have the strength to get up and I found myself with my head under the water." By Eric Kiefer for Belleville-Nutley, New Jersey, Patch (Photo courtesy of Rocco Cichetti) "I would get up, but then another wave would knock me down again. Each passing car created a wave, and "that would knock me down," Cicchetti said of the frightening situation.
Samuel Fontanez and Ivan Mancheno joined the unofficial "hall of Hurricane Ida heroes." The two Belleville, New Jersey, neighbors rushed from their homes after seeing Rocco Cicchetti stumble and then disappear in the knee-high floodwaters, unable to get to his feet.
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