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Le 6 octobre 2014, le jour où ma vie a pris une nouvelle voie pour poursuivre son chemin. Le jour où j’ai commencé une cohabitation avec une maladie rare… À […]
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Hello fellow NMO sisters and brothers. My name is Roxana aka “Roxy”. I was diagnosed with NMO in June 2011 when I was 17 years old. The first symptom I […]
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Bonjour à tous, je m’appelle Elodie. J’ai prochainement 37 ans. J’habite à Orp-Jauche, Brabant wallon, Belgique. En 2008, j’ai fait ma première poussée. Une nevrite optique. A l’époque, j’avais été […]
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It was over a decade ago, but I remember it like yesterday, the first patient I looked after with NMOSD. Actually, there were two of them in the same neuroimmunology […]
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I was born and raised in Cuba where I played outside, ran, and enjoyed time with my friends. In my healthy teen years, I didn’t think I’d ever become chronically […]
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The Sumaira Foundation
in MOG, Patient.e, Voices of NMO
Every day we wake up, we surely never expect our day to end with everything turned upside down – and our life changed forever. But it is exactly what happened […]
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While I was pregnant, I began having blurred vision. I went to see ophthalmologists, opticians, and general practitioners, but they kept saying nothing was wrong. I was sent to see […]
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Hi, my name is Noelani. I am 30 years old, was born and raised in Hawaii but currently reside in Nevada! Looking back, there were signs throughout my childhood of […]
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in MOG, Proche-aidant.e, Voices of NMO
My beautiful 4-year-old (5 years old now) daughter Jaidyn woke up one morning in late April 2021 with a headache, fever, vomiting, and very lethargic. Her grandmother and I took […]
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in MOG, Patient.e, Voices of NMO
Clean and clear were my glasses but still I had trouble seeing clearly with my right eye. On Easter Monday in 2019, my vision deteriorated and by the end of […]
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