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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
For a lot of my childhood, I was really hopeful that my doctors were going to figure out a diagnosis that would miraculously explain everything that was going on with me. I was young and didn’t understand much about the world around me but what
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
Phoebe, now nearly 13 years old, was first evaluated by the UDN in April 2017. It’s been four years and, like for so many others, information has been slow in coming. The timeline is blurred in my memory in a way that is likely familiar
