Read the October E-News Highlights Undiagnosed. UIltra-rare. United. UDNF Community Events Heartfelt letters written by current and past UDNF PEER members...
Growing up Together: Recognizing and Supporting Siblings of the Undiagnosed & Ultra-rare Join us on Tuesday, November 12th at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time as we explore the challenges siblings experience, from feeling overlooked to finding the balance between their own needs and those of their......
Read the September E-News Highlights Undiagnosed. UIltra-rare. United. UDNF Community Events Patient Navigator Program Highlights...
What the UDN offers patients like myself extends far beyond the obvious search for diagnosis and treatment. It offers a far more elusive gift; one that we struggle at times to find, and at other times to hang on to. One that we frequently abandon when caught in the throes of nihilistic despair.
It offers HOPE.
– Ingrid Kovitch, UDN Participant
I prefer to start my story from the end, because who doesn’t like a happy ending. Right? Or at least an ending in which the bad guy doesn’t win. I enjoy life with my service dog Sophie, spending winters in tropical Colombia and summers on
Posted originally on Once Upon a Gene. Written by Effie Parks. I met Meghan Halley on the NORD Living Rare Living Stronger planning committee. She co-chairs the patient and family support group for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. She’s a Stanford research scholar and a mom to
Our first son Carson was born in 2011, and our diagnostic odyssey began just a few months later when we began to notice that his developmental milestones weren’t quite tracking with other kids his age. His movements seemed stiff and jerky, and he had trouble
