Baby Has Rare Disease of Hardening of Blood Vessels, Skin and Muscles

There will be hardly any women in the world who would not dream about cuddling and engaging in intimate activities with their babies. However, it remains unfulfilled to a Washington state mother, Jenna Buswell due to a rare vascular condition of her seven-month-old son Casen.

Casen is one of the 14 people in the world suffering from Glomuvenous malformations plaque type. The condition caused by a missing glomulin gene makes the little boy's blood vessels, skin and muscles to harden, ABC News reported.

"It's progressive, so once the skin starts to harden and thicken it becomes extremely painful," Buswell told ABCNews.com. "Right now, he is so, so little that we're noticing that to touch there are areas that are sensitive so we have to be careful about how we place him."

The boy was born with the condition. However, it took nine weeks for the mother to get a satisfactory answer regarding the lesions on her little one's chest.

Dr. Miikka Vikkula and his wife, Dr. Laurence Boon in Brussels identified the condition. The boy who had a high level of breathing like 88 to 92 breaths per minute (25 to 40 are normal) was advised to undergo laser treatments every month, for three years.

"My hope is he is able to do all the things little boys should do. Run around, ride his bike, play with his sister," Buswell told ABC News.com. "And grow up and live a fairly normal life."

Many strangers and the family's Puyallup, Wash. Community are some among those who have come forward to help the family to pay the medical bills.

"It gives us hope we're going to be able to do whatever it is we need to do," ABC News.com quoted Buswell, as saying.

Apart from Casen, Buswell, a special education teacher and her husband C.J have a three -year-old daughter Cora.