Arushi Lohiya Marketing & Branding strategist | Fibromyalgia Warrior | Patient Advocate | Published Poet | Animal lover  Graduated top of my class from Iowa State University, USA in marketing... a national level sports player … managed to combine both my passions...
I started showing symptoms when I was 16yo. I started testing and MRI every year, after 5 years I stopped. When I was 26 I woke up and I could not feel half of my face. It has been a struggle getting the right meds getting everything working. At this point in my life...
Hi, My name is Katie. I am 23 years old. I was born with undiagnosed Spina Bifida until birth. I was born with a tumor-like mass that was a blessing that covered the hole in my spine. This turned out to be a blessing for many reasons the biggest being that it blocked...
Hi am Kins and i am a person with schizophrenia. I started to experience the symptoms when I was in mid 20s. At first, it was difficult to identify because in my country people around me believe in possessed demons or evil spirits. They believe that hearing voices and...
I was diagnosed with CMT and scoliosis when I was 16, I’m now 52. When I was first diagnosed my doctors told me that I would be in a wheelchair by the time I was 21. I decided right then and there that was not going to be the case. Spoiler alert: I am still...
Hi all! My name is Ashley Gregory. I am a 30 year old who lives in Virginia! My mom passed away from breast cancer when I was 15 after a several year long battle. So I decided to dedicate my life to helping others and graduated nursing school in 2014. After that, I...
I've always known I've had hydrocephalus. It's sort of like that big brother's in the room but you never talk about it. It's just there. Never in my life did I imagine that in my teens it would cement itself on center stage & not only demand to be recognized but...
I was born with Sturge-Weber Syndrome, with a large portwine stain birthmark covering the left side of my head and neck. Lots of extra blood vessels resulted in glaucoma and visible differences in my left eye. At 10 months, like many with SWS, I began to have...
My issues started @ 14 mos of age with a subdural hematoma leaving me blind in my right eye and a klutz my whole life. Fast forward to 17/18 and depression and anxiety came into play. Fast forward again to 2011 and I had to have a hemilaminectomy on my l5/s1 disc. My...
My angel Warrior Eryn was born with very weak muscles. She spent a lot of time in the hospital as an infant and toddler. This prompted me to become a nurse. I work as both a pediatric and neonatal nurse to help parents like me and children like mine. I gained a new...
August 1996 was when my journey into this world began... I was born a twin. Our arrival was definitely unpredictable. We were born three months early on the day of my mom's twenty-fifth week of pregnancy. My brother, Christian, was born first, and seventeen minutes...