“I just want new skin, Mom.” Courage in the face of a painful life with epidermolysis bullosa (EB)
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Brady is a five-year-old who is living with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), a rare genetic skin condition. His mother, Eileen, describes what it was like to discover that Brady has RDEB and tells us how she is both the mother of a brave, happy little boy and the nurse who causes him pain during his daily wound care. RDEB has changed their lives.
Sanuj Ravindran, M.D., executive chairman of BridgeBio’s Phoenix Tissue Repair, joins the conversation to talk about the condition and explain how EB affects the body internally and externally.
Erin joins David Rintell, Head of Patient Advocacy at BridgeBio, and Mandy Rohrig, Director of Patient Advocacy at BridgeBio Gene Therapy, to share her experience living with hypochondroplasia. Erin also has two sons living with hypochondroplasia and one son of average height. Raised in a loving...
Published 10/29/24
In today’s episode of On Rare, David Rintell, Head of Patient Advocacy at BridgeBio, and Mandy Rohrig, Director of Patient Advocacy at BridgeBio Gene Therapy, speak with Misty about her experience living with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, type2I/R9 (LGMD2I/R9). Misty details the suffering she...
Published 10/03/24