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Spanish Posted by: The Sumaira Foundation in NMO, Patient, Voices of NMO
I was a 26 year old working in the Pentagon in the Navy Executive Dining Facility. I was Active Duty Navy for almost 8 years… On October 18, 2017, I had a colonoscopy because I was losing weight, bowels had blood and mucus coming out. After that, I start having a tingling in my thighs […]
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Nothing can fell Marie. No matter the punches that NMO throws, Marie just gets up again and keeps on going. A strong young woman who has learned to live with blindness and many years in a wheelchair, Marie, now 26, has been living with NMO since the age of 14. Like for so many young […]
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This disease began with hiccups and vomiting 25+ times a day. I was certain that I had gotten food poisoning or had the flu. Later, I learned that things would get much worse before they got better. I could no longer work because it was difficult for me to even get out of bed. After […]
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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 been on the other side of the hospital bed more frequently than not for the last five years. Ria has risen to the occasion. Because […]
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The Diagnosis My NMO journey started after my 29th birthday in January 2016. I had a headache that would not go away. It was unlike anything I had experienced before. At the time I had just embarked on a new semester in law school. Everyone around me thought it was just law school stress. The […]
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