Rare Diseases, Disability, and Self-Identity: I Am More Than My ConditionI didn't always see myself as someone living with a rare disease. For years, I fought to hold onto the life I had before my diagnosis. When my symptoms first...
Xanadu I or Don't I? A Rare Disease Roller Skating OdysseyIn the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, my partner Gwenn and her friends decided to order roller skates and take a spin together around a cul-de-sac. It felt fun...
Journey to Chronic Rare Disease TreatmentLiving with a rare disease is difficult. Getting access to treatment for rare diseases can be inaccessible for many. Many rare disease medications are expensive and subject to price gouging...
Rare Diseases, Disability, and Self-Identity: I Am More Than My ConditionI didn't always see myself as someone living with a rare disease. For years, I fought to hold onto the life I had before my diagnosis. When my symptoms first...
Xanadu I or Don't I? A Rare Disease Roller Skating OdysseyIn the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, my partner Gwenn and her friends decided to order roller skates and take a spin together around a cul-de-sac. It felt fun...
Journey to Chronic Rare Disease TreatmentLiving with a rare disease is difficult. Getting access to treatment for rare diseases can be inaccessible for many. Many rare disease medications are expensive and subject to price gouging...
Rare Diseases, Disability, and Self-Identity: I Am More Than My ConditionI didn't always see myself as someone living with a rare disease. For years, I fought to hold onto the life I had before my diagnosis. When my symptoms first...
Xanadu I or Don't I? A Rare Disease Roller Skating OdysseyIn the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, my partner Gwenn and her friends decided to order roller skates and take a spin together around a cul-de-sac. It felt fun...
Journey to Chronic Rare Disease TreatmentLiving with a rare disease is difficult. Getting access to treatment for rare diseases can be inaccessible for many. Many rare disease medications are expensive and subject to price gouging...
Navigating Life with a Rare Disease: An Accessibility StoryThe most consistently bothersome aspect of living with hemophilia is my left ankle. Due to both minor and, on rare occasions, major bleeding into the joint, I have very little...reactionscomments
Living for the Moment: Doing the Unexpected With Pompe DiseaseIt was 2018, and I turned 50 years old in March. The following month, we lost our oldest son to a brain tumor. He was only 22 years old. It...reactionscomments
Featured forum Dietary ChangesHi, I have been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition, AMACR deficiency, that so far is asymptomatic but I do have an elevated level of phytanic and pristanic acid in...reactions12replies
Featured story It's Just the Way You AreI just turned 60. I have been questioning many things, regarding my health, for as long as I can remember. I went to doctors, or was taken, and never really...reactions3comments