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Beyond My Feeding Tube: How a shock diagnosis meant a fight to regain my identity
EXCLUSIVE | 3 MIN READ | AS TOLD TO SERAPHINA SEOW
I don’t eat any more.
In 2015, I had a sleepover with my cousins and woke up unable to see properly out of my right eye. At just 14, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis - a lifelong condition that affects the brain and spinal cord, causing wide-ranging symptoms
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My Favorite Foundation that advocates for feeding tube care and awareness
Our Mission
Founded in 1983 by Lyn Howard, MD and her patient, Clarence “Oley” Oldenburg, the Oley Foundation is a national, independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that strives to enrich the lives of those living with home intravenous nutrition (parenteral) and tube feeding (enteral) through education, advocacy, and networking.
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The National MS Society is a god send! Definitely helped me with navigating life as a yound adult
We’ve come so far
Things have changed. Decades of research into MS and the basic workings of the immune and nervous systems have built a critical platform of knowledge now serving as a springboard for progress. The Society’s $1.06 billion research investment has fueled many of these advances, and today’s picture looks different for many: