Posted by Jim at August 1st, 2007

When I was a kid, I remember reading about “the boy in the bubble.”

You may remember that? A boy with some sort of immune deficiency disorder was put in a plastic bubble practically from the moment he was born.

I never remember hearing whether he’d died or eventually left the bubble. It turns out that he did die and that his story was sadder than I remember the press reporting it.

The Boy in the Bubble article…