Pietro’s Fight raises awareness in pajamas
Classrooms across the neighborhood got comfy for a good cause on Thursday, December 18 as 25 schools participated in a community-wide fundraiser-turned-pajama party, PJs for PJs, for Pietro’s Fight.
“We had such an amazing response. All the kids knew Pietro and all the kids knew somewhat about the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD),” lauded Dayna Scarso, co-founder of Pietro’s Fight and loving mother of five-year-old Pietro Joseph Scarso, a bright-eyed boy fighting the good fight against DMD – a recessive X-linked form of muscular dystrophy, affecting around 1 in 3,600 boys.
No known effective treatment or cure currently exists for Duchenne, but, according to Scarso, there are eight drugs in trial that are dosing boys with the disease and countless in clinical trials, all aided by organizations like Pietro’s Fight.