M ost of the time, Whitney Weldon doesn’t think about her second skeleton. She was 9 the first time it really flared up. Bridges of bone grew from nowhere to freeze her right arm at a 120-degree angle, an excruciating experience that felt “like your bones are trying to come out of your skin,” she said. A decade later, her second skeleton sprouted struts of bone that locked the other arm in place, this time at 180 degrees.
Patients with FOP, a grim genetic disease, see hope on the horizon
- Post author:Rose Duesterwald
- Post published:March 26, 2019
- Post category:Rare Disease
Rose Duesterwald
Rose became acquainted with Patient Worthy after her husband was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) six years ago. During this period of partial remission, Rose researched investigational drugs to be prepared in the event of a relapse. Her husband died February 12, 2021 with a rare and unexplained occurrence of liver cancer possibly unrelated to AML.