News about Rebecca Newman

Harper Ryals led a normal, healthy life until she turned two. All of a sudden, the toddler hit a big growth spurt, and she began having a hard time breathing, and developed a persistent blue tint to her skin. Her mother, Mississippi stay-at-home mom Rebecca Newman, took her to the doctor and discovered that large swaths of the blood vessels in her lungs and brain were tangled together, malformed - starving her body and organs of oxygen. Harper, now five-years-old, was diagnosed with a rare disease disease called hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) - which about 75,000 people in the US currently live with.