They became their own miracle

It's a rare moment that we experience anything positive in the news. But I have to say, I've become a fan of CBS Sunday Morning Show.

Last week, Steve Hartman on Sunday Morning covered a love story that made me grab my tissue box. And it's something that will encourage you too.

A newly married woman, Sonia Vallabh, discovered that she carried a rare genetic disease, called Genetic Prion Disease. She knew the disease would kill her by age fifty.

So she and her husband Eric decided to fight it. First, they googled the disease, a rapid and progressive form of dementia with no cure.

Neither Sonia nor Eric had any medical education. He was a transportation technician, and Sonia had recently graduated from law school. But that didn't stop them. They signed up for biology courses, and kept their day jobs. They intended to learn everything they could about the disease.

Then they were accepted into a PhD program at Harvard, and worked at the prestigious Broad Institute in Cambridge Massachusetts.

They are now legitimate scientists, working side by side everyday in their lab, searching for a cure, and they are quickly becoming leading experts in their field of research. If they find a cure, it will not only save Sonia, but about seven thousand other people as well.

But when Sonia turned to her husband during the interview and said,

“The miracle of my lifetime is that we met. That will always be the greatest miracle to me,” I lost it. Some people are life warriors. They fight their way through obstacles and overcome challenges. Perhaps this video will inspire you too. I hope so.