Hundreds come to amusement park to help Pietro
A Bay Ridge mom hoping for a cure for her son’s rare disease hosted a fun day in an amusement park for hundreds of families to raise money for research. Dayna Scarso, whose three-year-old son Pietro suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), organized the “Bump, Crash, and Smash DMD” event at the Adventurer’s Family Entertainment Center in Bath Beach on a recent Friday afternoon.
The event was sponsored by www.pietrosfight.org, the website Dayna Scarso and her husband Mannie started to raise awareness of DMD, a disease that affects motor skills and occurs in one out of every 3,500 male births.
Little Pietro Scarso was diagnosed with the disease last year. There is no treatment and no cure. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle first reported on the plight of the http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/bay-ridge-parents-seek-cure-son%E2%80%99s-rare-disease Scarso family back in January when the family was planning its first fundraiser. At that time, Dayna Scarso recalled that Pietro was two years old when she noticed something was wrong with him. The little boy moved much more slowly than his peers in the local playground. “And I noticed he also had trouble climbing the stairs,” she told the Eagle. It took numerous trips to several doctors before a specialist was able to diagnose Pietro.