Swimming with sharks

Swimming with sharks

ABC.net.au | March 15, 2011 | By Nathalie Fernbach / Paula Tapiolas

Seven year old Oonoonba student Byron Holman and his mum Meghan spoke with Paula Tapiolas about the Sharkbait Kids program and how swimming makes Byron feel ‘normal’.”

He feels like a normal little boy in the water.” Says Meghan Holman of her son Byron.

“If he could swim everyday he would, he really enjoys it because it is easy on his muscles”.

Seven year old Byron has a rare condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and is one of only four people with the disease in north Queensland.

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