Melissa Wilder’s journey with dermatomyositis has been long, winding, and marked by extraordinary resilience. Before myositis entered her life, she was someone who embraced possibility—so much so that she once…
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Find Your People
For most of her life, Malarie Hensley defined herself by motion. A dedicated runner, she completed two marathons and eight half‑marathons, spending countless weekends on long runs with friends. When…
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Turning Grief into Advocacy
Jamie Batiste never expected that the path to advocacy would begin in a childhood bedroom, where she and her brother Aaron spent hours pretending to host their own radio show….
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Finally, people didn’t think I was crazy
Yashira Tirado had been having trouble breathing on and off for several years, which her doctors thought might be adult-onset asthma. She started feeling muscle pain and fatigue. Yashira thought,…
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A Story of Discovery and Success…So Far
By Bryan Gilbrech I was diagnosed at 28 years old in 1996 while I was in the Army. It started with what I call a benign pain in my right buttock that…
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