’Because Love Battles’: A Mother, A Son, and a Determination to Make a Difference -with Michelle Hutchinson

Five months after her second child was born, Michelle started to do that thing we are all told not to do (and we all equally can't help but do): she compared her babies one to the other. Baby 1 was active, exploratory, babbling as early as anyone can remember. Baby 2 was quiet, seemed uninterested, appeared helpless. The differences were too many to ignore and by eight months, Colton, Baby 2, was referred for developmental physical therapy. But that was just the beginning.

Michelle Hutchinson's son was diagnosed with an incredibly rare condition known as 48XXXY. The entire Hutchinson family would soon begin a life filled with multiple therapy appointments, travel for medical services, and a crash course in rare diseases and research funding. With full plates yet fuller hearts, the Hutchinsons started a non-profit to raise funds both for families facing rare diagnoses and for medical researchers to continue their work studying these conditions.

This is a story about the unexpected, sure, but it's more a story about seeing a need and serving it. For Colton, for rare conditions, for families like their own, Michelle started Colton's XXXtraordinary Cause. And she's not the only Hutchinson out there raising awareness.

Join Michelle Hutchinson and I...and special guest Ella Hutchinson for an XXXtraordinary story about love and service and community and hope.