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Part I and II of this story were originally published in 2015 by NMO Stories, presented by The Guthy-Jackson Foundation and the Connor B. Judge Foundation. It was shared again […]
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Jarrie grew up on a farm and declares himself a simple man. I think otherwise. I think Jarrie is a man for whom love is simply enough. Jarrie married his […]
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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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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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It was March 2009. I was 39 years old. One morning, I woke up feeling significant pressure behind my left eye. I felt it mostly in the right corner of […]
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Recently, Ria’s mother’s blood pressure climbed dangerously high. Her father is scheduled for a triple bypass later this week. It’s been an unusual few months for a woman who has […]
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Something Wasn’t Right I was the perfect example of the shiny student off to bigger and better things from the small country town where I grew up. I had a […]
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