For all the explanations folks go to Utah, the nationwide parks, the snowboarding, the mountains, Margaret McIntyre couldn’t wait to get right here.
“I’ve by no means been to Utah earlier than,” she mentioned. Nonetheless, it wasn’t the out of doors recreation she was most enthusiastic about. Her daughter, Aoife, has a uncommon genetic dysfunction and is just one of 4 folks chosen for a scientific trial being carried out on the College of Utah.
“I imply, we really feel like we received the golden ticket,” she mentioned.
“There are about fifty completely different sorts of leukodystrophies. The one she has is known as vanishing white matter and there’s about 350 folks on the planet who’ve it,” McIntyre mentioned.
The Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport goes to change into a well-known place for them over the subsequent two years since they stay in Chicago. However as they had been going house this previous Wednesday, McIntyre misplaced her laptop computer whereas going by means of and didn’t even realize it.
“Sadly, it wasn’t till we had been on the airplane after I pulled out my pc to do some work and realized I don’t have my pc,” she mentioned. “I even have another person’s.”
McIntyre says she remembers throughout screening, the folks serving to together with her daughter’s wheelchair mentioned they took her laptop computer out of the bin and put it in her bag to assist. It was an trustworthy mistake because the two laptops look alike.
Nonetheless, she actually wants her laptop computer.
“It has every little thing to do with my daughter’s medical historical past. Her scientific trial. The data they want. All her well being info,” she mentioned. A few of that info is backed up, however not all of it.
She crammed out a misplaced and located report with the airport, and even checked out footage of a number of the discovered objects, however her laptop computer hasn’t turned up but.
Her laptop computer, which is a gray 15-inch MacBook professional, can also be locked, so whoever has it may well’t open it with out her password. The Acer model pc she has can also be locked, so she will’t discover that proprietor.
McIntyre mentioned she will likely be again in Utah in a few weeks and can convey that laptop computer to misplaced and located on the Salt Lake airport so maybe the proprietor will discover it. For now, although, together with her lacking laptop computer, she’s simply hoping for a second miracle.
“All our photographs from when she may stroll and speak are on that laptop computer,” she mentioned. “It’s sort of heart-breaking.”
