Posted by: The Sumaira Foundation in NMO, Patient.e, TM, Voices of NMO
I was diagnosed with Neuromyelitis Optica in June of 2012 after two hospitalizations totaling 5 months, during which I lost all my strength, ability to move and all feeling from my chest down… My first symptoms, during August and September of 2011, were nausea and vomiting. Nowadays, I know that those are very peculiar characteristics […]
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I have never been a person that likes to sit still; I don’t even like going to the movies. If it was up to me, I would run from location to location so that I can get there faster. I was a runner in high school, in college and I have completed 4 marathons, qualifying […]
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It was mid-August. We were leaving Mass General Hospital. I’d been discharged after almost a week’s stay. I was just diagnosed with NMO. It was merely an acronym;the meaning hadn’t yet sunk in. I told my friend as we got into the car, “I’m not sure how yet, but somehow this has to become a good thing.” […]
Read MorePosted by: The Sumaira Foundation in NMO, Patient.e, Voices of NMO
It began like a pain unlike any other. In 2009, and during my sophomore year of college, I was sitting in class when the shooting pain down my back began. It was as if someone took hot metal spikes and drug it slowly down my spine. Terrified, I never told anyone what I was going […]
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