The Hyattsville resident has spent more than nine years taking care of her son Brandon, who was born with agenesis of the corpus callosum, a disorder in which the structure that connects the brain’s two hemispheres doesn’t form. Whalen was recently honored by Shire, a biopharmaceutical company in Ireland, as an unsung everyday hero.
How did you find out that Brandon had this disorder?
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