Samantha husband

Luckily my mom liked to visit me every two weeks and she felt I also had an almost jaundiced look and weakness she hadn’t seen in years. So as usual my mom and I decided it would be best to schedule a   follow up with my neurosurgeon in Iowa after graduation. I have an OC3 fusion to correct problems due to an abnormality in the cranial cervical junction also associated with Chiari Malformation, and with that follow up in May he told me my fusion was still intact and on his end everything was good. But Dr. Menezes treats so many of us with rare genetic conditions that he felt a visit to the pediatrics specialty group genetics clinic to get follow up blood test from when I was 13 years-old was necessary to confirm the source of my issues. He felt that after my initial surgery in 2006 I may have Loey-Dietz but at the time there wasn’t a test available to confirm the diagnosis. After that blood test came back I was diagnosed with Loeys-Dietz Syndrome (LDS), a connective tissue disorder similar to Marfan’s, and Homocystinuria. I didn’t know what either of those things were, but

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