Epoch Times - Patrick Girondi’s Pact with God to Save his Son’s Life
Aired: 2025-11-11
Duration: 01:47


=== Promising to Fight Rare Diseases (01:47) ===

[00:00:00]  So there's 6,000 orphan diseases, you know, that means they have to be under 200,000 patients in the United States, 250,000 in Europe.
[00:00:08]  And I promised when Rocco was diagnosed, I'll never forget it, and we went to Pesaro, Italy, to see about a match, and we found out that there was no match in the family.
[00:00:24]  I guess probably the only time in my life I can ever remember being desperate, I promised the Lord that if he would help me save Rocco's life, that I would dedicate the rest of my life to fighting these rare diseases.
[00:00:43]  Because when he was diagnosed and they told me this word thalassemia, I mean, I couldn't spell it.
[00:00:49]  I could barely pronounce it.
[00:00:51]  And then the explanation and the education about all of these rare diseases and all of these families who are stuck with this just egregious, just horrific news.
[00:01:05]  And I'm more fortunate than others because I had cake.
[00:01:10]  I had the resources.
[00:01:12]  And so anyway, so that's what I mean by we will dedicate the rest, my life anyway.
[00:01:20]  And after I'm gone, which I'm sure it won't be that long, I hope that the company is around, that we can continue to dedicate, you know, the resources, not to making the CEO rich or, you know, the company rich.
[00:01:38]  Of course, we want to be good to our investors.
[00:01:40]  We want to make a solid company.
[00:01:42]  We certainly are capitalists.
[00:01:44]  But we're capitalists kind of in the old-fashioned way.