An 8-year-old deaf-blind boy with a rare, terminal condition who was told he wouldn’t live past his first birthday is growing up in a happy home thanks to his parents’ determination in making him feel and experience love from all angles. Gideon Jolicoeur from Rockwell, Texas, was diagnosed with a degenerative genetic condition called peroxisomal biogenesis disorder (PBD) at 7 months old. He is legally blind, profoundly deaf, and has reduced mobility. Gideon lives with his parents, Samantha and Kevin Jolicoeur, and siblings, Laynie, 11, Josiah, 5, and Nya, 3. Both former teachers, Samantha and Kevin were ecstatic to learn they were expecting their second child. Samantha’s pregnancy was “typical.” But on the day Gideon was born, Jan. 18, 2013, doctors suspected something was wrong with him. “During labor, his heart rate began dropping with each contraction. The doctor made the decision to do a Caesarean section,” stay-at-home mom Samantha …