Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sleep for weeks at a time, missing birthdays, holidays and chunks of your life? For Bethany, this is her reality living with the extremely rare Kleine Levin Syndrome (KLS), often called "Sleeping Beaut…
Living With Razor Blades in Her Blood: A Firsthand Account of Battling Sickle Cell Disease "It feels like glass shards.." That's how my guest Cameron described the excruciating pain of a sickle cell crisis. Her vivid description pierced my…
No Protein Diet or My Brain Shuts Down: Surviving Metabolic Chaos When Dan Elmer was diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU) as an infant in the late 1970s, newborn screening programs were just emerging. Without this early detection, Dan may have suff…
Living with Inclusion Body Myositis: Jim Mathews Shares His Uplifting Outlook In this week’s episode of The Medical Maze Podcast, guest Jim Mathews provides a raw, honest perspective on coping with inclusion body myositis (IBM), a rare muscle…
Living With an Extremely Rare Condition That Makes People Allergic to Your Presence Imagine emitting a gas from your body that makes other people severely allergic to you. They get watery eyes, coughing fits and become desperately itchy when you're…
Fighting for Her Life: Rosa Rodriguez's Incredible Journey Battling Rare Cancers Rosa Rodriguez was living an active, normal childhood when at age 12 her world was turned upside down. After suffering concerning gastrointestinal symptoms, Rosa was d…
Unmasking the Isolated Reality of Severe Autism - Key Takeaways from a Parent's Raw Journey In this intensely moving episode of the Medical Maze podcast, Phil courageously steps forward to peel back the layers on the grueling daily struggle…
Unraveling the Mystery of Sarcoidosis: One Woman's Journey Sarcoidosis is a perplexing inflammatory disease that can strike any organ in the body. On a recent Medical Maze podcast, Terri shared her frustrating journey to getting diagnosed and learn…
Race Against Time: A Woman’s Fight to Survive Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Molly was only 9 years old when she was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a rare progressive liver disease. Now 29, her condition is rapidly decli…
Living with Turner Syndrome: One Woman's Inspirational Journey Turner syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that only affects females. It results from a missing or incomplete X chromosome, occurring in 1 in 2,000 to 5,000 female births. While some gi…