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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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June 22, 2020 — The Sumaira Foundation for NMO is pleased to present its newest ambassadors to the TSF family. The ambassador team consists of 20 ambassadors who represent 15 […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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It started with a never-ending headache… Click the image below to watch Chasity’s video in which she describes her experience with optic neuritis. Although she has lost a significant amount […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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I can trace my first NMO symptoms back to when I was just 12 years old… I’d be walking down a flight of stairs and for a split second, it […]
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My name is Letitia and I am a 22-year-old South African NMO patient. My story began on the 26th of December 2017, Boxing Day… I had been suffering with an […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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Five years ago, my oldest daughter and I were grocery shopping when it occurred to me that the grocery store looked foggy or smokey. When I asked her if she […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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It was December 2019. I struggled almost every day with tension headaches (eyes and nose). My primary care doctor suspected I had migraines and prescribed me with migraine medication. I […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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March 31, 2020 — The Sumaira Foundation for NMO is pleased to present the results of the NMO community’s outreach efforts to have March declared “NMO Awareness Month” across the […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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Hello, my name is James. I am 24 years old. I am a recent college graduate, a skateboarder, a geek, a lucky dude with an amazing family and friends. If […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
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March 30, 2020 — The Sumaira Foundation for NMO (TSF) launched COVID-19 & NMO: From the Experts, a limited series of live Q&A focused on navigating the pandemic for those […]
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