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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 […]
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When your daughter suddenly goes blind in one eyes, you feel helpless. When the doctors don’t know what it is or why it happens, you feel frustrated. When this happens […]
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On the evening of Sunday, 17th January 2010, my mother was putting up a fight with my brothers and I to go to bed while we were chasing each other […]
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My name is AnneMarie and my journey with NMO began in 2002 when I was just 16 years old… One April morning, I woke up with a stabbing pain in […]
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My name is Jaime. I live in the small town of Exeter, Pennsylvania. I am a wife and a mother to a beautiful and healthy 15 year-old daughter. And I […]
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My biggest fear in life was that I would have some incurable sickness or disease. Not heights, nor spiders, nor public speaking. It was getting sick. Both of my parents […]
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Today this is where I am – right here and right now. God has a plan, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never be – It’s up to me as […]
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My name is Kellin. I am a 28-year-old South African NMO patient and this is my story… Late in 2015, my father suddenly passed away. It was a shock to […]
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Freshman year of college is a time to form your sense of identity, but when I started school, I thought that forming this ‘new’ me meant dying my hair blue, […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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Maureen is a nurse. She worked in neurocritical care at Johns Hopkins Hospital for many years before she had ever heard of NMO. But in 2007, shortly after Dr. Benjamin […]
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