Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Lorenzo is bright and vibrant young boy living in Comoro Islands, Fact2: parents relocate to United States, Fact3: boy is diagnosed as having adrenoleukodystrophy, Fact4: Augusto and Michaela set out on mission to find Failing to find doctor capable of treating son 's rare disease treatment to save child, Fact5: brain had been causing son 's steady decline halting progression of disease
Output (English): Lorenzo is a bright and vibrant young boy living in the Comoro Islands, as his father Augusto works for the World Bank and is stationed there. However, when his parents relocate back to the United States, he begins to show signs of neurological problems such as falling, loss of hearing, tantrums, etc.. The boy is diagnosed as having adrenoleukodystrophy ALD, which is fatal within two years. Failing to find a doctor capable of treating their sons rare disease, Augusto and his wife Michaela set out on a mission to find a treatment to save their child. In their quest, the Odones clash with doctors, scientists, and support groups who are skeptical that anything could be done about ALD, much less by laypeople. But they persist, setting up camp in medical libraries, reviewing animal experiments, enlisting the aid of Professor Gus Nikolais, badgering researchers, questioning top doctors all over the world, and even organizing an international symposium about the disease. Despite research deadends, the horror of watching their sons health decline, and being surrounded by skeptics including the coordinators of the support group they attend, they persist until they finally hit upon a therapy involving adding a certain kind of oil actually containing two specific long chain fatty acids, isolated from rapeseed oil and olive oil to their sons diet. They contact over 100 firms around the world until they find an elderly British chemist, Don Suddaby, who is working for Croda International and is willing to take on the challenge of distilling the proper formula. The oil, erucic acid, proves successful in normalizing the accumulation of the very long chain fatty acids in the brain that had been causing their sons steady decline, thereby halting the progression of the disease. There is still a great deal of neurological damage remaining which could not be reversed unless new treatments could be found to regenerate the myelin sheath a lipid insulator around the nerves. The father is seen taking on the new challenge of organizing biomedical efforts to heal myelin damage in patients. Finally, Lorenzo, at the age of 14, shows definite improvement swallowing for himself and answering yes or no questions by blinking but more medical research is still needed. Ultimately it is revealed that Lorenzo has also regained his sight and is learning to use a computer.