Two Alberta families are celebrating early Christmas miracles this week. Kaysen Martin and Harper Hanki both received IV gene-therapy treatments.

A family is urgently trying to raise $2.8 million to give their son a potentially life-changing drug that could help him with his spinal muscular atrophy.

Harper Hanki, who is just over a year old, was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy Type 1 (SMA 1) when she was just seven months old.

A little girl from Spruce Grove, Alta., is bringing people from across the province together in a fight for a multi-million-dollar lifesaving treatment.

"It will allow me to keep the functions that I have currently and I'm able to maintain my life as I currently have it. That's all I really ask."

"We're so in love and she's the perfect addition to our family. So the news of her diagnosis was really devastating and shocking to us."

"It was deemed the world's most expensive therapy." An Alberta family is hoping their 10-month-old baby will be able to receive a cure for his disease in the U.S.

Eva Batista was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), which is a rare disease that attacks the body's muscles, at seven weeks old.

Pyper Whitecotton was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II early in life.

“I’m able to work eight hours a day, which I couldn’t do before. I definitely have increased movement in my hands."