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Drogi Czytelniku – chciałabym podzielić się z Tobą naszą bardzo osobistą historią, która zmieniła życie moje i mojego męża. Bardzo bym chciała, żeby nasza historia była dla Ciebie przykładem nadziei i motywacji, abyś się nigdy nie poddał w poszukiwaniu ludzi, którzy będą mogli Ci pomóc i będę Twoim wsparciem. Bądź otwarty, pytaj i proś o […]
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On Monday, I woke up with a slight ache on the left side of my lower back which felt numb, like a bruise but without the pain. This numb spot would spread across my chest in the following days and become stronger. I woke on Thursday morning with pins and needles in both legs and […]
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Bonjour à tous, je m’appelle Fatiha. J’habite à Étalleville en Normandie. Je suis tombée malade le 20 février 2016. Date anniversaire de la mort de mon père. Une double peine pour moi. Mon premier symptôme: une paralysie du côté gauche. J’ai été hospitalisée et mon état s’est dégradé très vite. J’ai perdu la vue, j’ai […]
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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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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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It all began with a tremor. It was September 2018, and I was off on maternity leave after having my second daughter earlier that year. As nice as that should have been, I was probably at one of the lowest points in my life. I’d been diagnosed with post-natal depression a few months earlier. In […]
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It was the Friday before Halloween in 2018. Anthy was on her way home from work when she called her husband to see if she needed to pick up anything on the way home. She heard him crying, telling her that his mother, in Greece, had just been diagnosed with cancer. Instantly, she felt a […]
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Virginia was only 10 when, while checking the mail one day in April, she noticed a grayness in her vision, “like leaves creeping up from the bottom of my eye.” The strange phenomenon went away in a few minutes. Her mother, Kimberlie, attributed the problem to Virginia’s allergies. But when the vision problem returned, they […]
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It was the late 1990’s. I was in my 30’s had constant pain down my left arm, and even though I couldn’t tie the symptoms down to any single event, my orthopedic surgeon had me on the surgery schedule assuming I needed a spinal fusion to fix a slipped disc. Then my MRI results came […]
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Imagine this: You’re driving on a highway, and suddenly, your hands stop working completely. You can’t grip the wheel. Imagine the terror and the confusion… And then imagine, that, thank goodness, your husband is in the car with you and takes over driving before you get into an accident. You assume something crazy happened and […]
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