“A big thank you to everyone who sent kind and thoughtful messages, and donated to support medical research to defeat Rett Syndrome,” he tweeted Thursday.
The NBC News chief foreign correspondent paid tribute to his son Henry,“Henry would have turned 7 today,” Engel, 49,“A big thank you to everyone who sent kind and thoughtful messages, and donated to support medical research to defeat Rett Syndrome. Happy Birthday Binks .
”The journalist previously announced that Henry died from Rett syndrome — a rare neurological disorder that affects the way the brain develops — on Aug. 18, just five years after he was diagnosed with the incurable disease.“Our beloved son Henry passed away. He had the softest blue eyes, an easy smile and a contagious giggle,” the journalist, who is married to Mary Forrest,Engel and his wife, Mary Forrest, are also parents to 3-year-old son Theo.
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