Nicholas Nunno is a wonderful boy who lives in Rutherford, NJ.  He was born premature and in respiratory distress, and spent three weeks in the NICU.  At one month he had to have dual hernia surgery.  He did not crawl, walk or talk at normal milestones.  At two years of age after months of grueling testing, he was diagnosed with a mitochondrial disease.  Within the past ten years, he has spent dozens of nights in the hospital, had pneumonia six times, been on respirators and had two dangerous lung surgeries.  He has gone through hundreds and hundreds of hours of therapies and worked harder than any child we know.  Recently he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a direct result of his mitochondrial disease.