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Le 6 octobre 2014, le jour où ma vie a pris une nouvelle voie pour poursuivre son chemin. Le jour où j’ai commencé une cohabitation avec une maladie rare… À cette date, à 36 ans, la partie supérieure de mon œil gauche commence à voir de façon embrouillée. Six jours plus tard, mon œil ne […]
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Hello fellow NMO sisters and brothers. My name is Roxana aka “Roxy”. I was diagnosed with NMO in June 2011 when I was 17 years old. The first symptom I experienced was weakness in my right ankle. I woke up one day and my ankle couldn’t sustain my weight. I thought I hadn’t slept well […]
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Bonjour à tous, je m’appelle Elodie. J’ai prochainement 37 ans. J’habite à Orp-Jauche, Brabant wallon, Belgique. En 2008, j’ai fait ma première poussée. Une nevrite optique. A l’époque, j’avais été aux urgences ophtalmologiques dans un grand hôpital à Bruxelles. L’ophtalmologue sur place m’a parlé directement d’une sclérose en plaques. Diagnostic qui n’avait pas été confirmé […]
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I was a young resident at the University of Verona’s, Neurology Unit when I met a woman with rapidly evolving extensive myelitis. I first thought about NMOSD and asked our laboratory to analyse her serum for anti-AQP4. I performed the spinal tap and asked for an infectious and autoimmune screening, but the analyses were within […]
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On April 29, 1984, I landed at Boston’s Logan Airport with two suitcases and a seven-year-old girl holding my hand. This trip concluded a process that had begun three years before when my sister, who lived with her husband and her daughters in Massachusetts, asked me if I wanted to immigrate to the United States. […]
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It was over a decade ago, but I remember it like yesterday, the first patient I looked after with NMOSD. Actually, there were two of them in the same neuroimmunology clinic. Both patients had a profound effect on me and have continued to influence other decisions I have made in my career since that time. […]
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I was born and raised in Cuba where I played outside, ran, and enjoyed time with my friends. In my healthy teen years, I didn’t think I’d ever become chronically sick, much less, stop walking. I remember watching a movie about a boy named Lorenzo who suffered from a degenerative neurological disease that causes paralysis. […]
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Every day we wake up, we surely never expect our day to end with everything turned upside down – and our life changed forever. But it is exactly what happened to me in 2013 after being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that could likely leave me blind, paralyzed, or worse… “You have ten years,” the […]
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While I was pregnant, I began having blurred vision. I went to see ophthalmologists, opticians, and general practitioners, but they kept saying nothing was wrong. I was sent to see a neurologist at a public hospital, but there were long wait times. Knowing I needed answers, I chose to go to a private hospital. The […]
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Hi, my name is Noelani. I am 30 years old, was born and raised in Hawaii but currently reside in Nevada! Looking back, there were signs throughout my childhood of NMO, bowel/urinary incontinence, spurts of tingles, and needles in my extremities. In my early teens, I had episodes of numbness in my left arm and […]
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