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The Sumaira Foundation
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My name is Allison and I am a married, busy mom of three children (17, 12 & 12 years old). My NMO journey started approximately seven years ago, when I […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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November 25, 2020 — The Sumaira Foundation for NMO is pleased to present “Understanding the Canadian NMOSD Journey”, a 6-part live webinar series featuring Canadian patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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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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The Sumaira Foundation
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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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The Sumaira Foundation
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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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August 18, 2020 – The Sumaira Foundation is pleased to present NMOSD/MOG-AD Support Groups & Pages Our team hopes that this document will serve as a valuable resource to our […]
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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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The Sumaira Foundation
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Although we would prefer to get together in person, we look forward to coming together virtually in October to commemorate six years of TSF. Please join us on Saturday, October 24 […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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My name is Mitchel Navarro. I’m 34 years old, a wife, and a proud momma to two beautiful children – a girl and a boy. I have a bachelors degree […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
in NMO, ON, Patient, TM, Voices of NMO
Sunday 15 December 2013, on a friend’s farm in the beautiful little town of Dullstroom in Mpumalanga South Africa, started as blissfully peaceful as it sounds. This was to change […]
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