Finally, at 6 a.m., he gave up and got the kids ready for school. He dropped them off at Morehead Elementary, where Raechel is in kindergarten and Caleb attends pre-school for autistic children. Then he started a nine-hour day as design manager at Cardinal Logistics Management in Concord. Caleb has awakened almost every night since. Father and son will fly to Boston for a second infusion Thursday.
Insurance pays for none of it.
But they wouldn't trade the money for the difference it has made in Caleb. About 10,000 people in North Carolina and more than 9,000 in South Carolina are believed to have autism. People with autism have trouble communicating. At one extreme, they may be mute. At the other, they may be articulate but use words oddly and have trouble with written language.