Even with the windows closed, I could hear the loud rattle of my husband’s old car as he pulled into the driveway. It signaled that the time had finally come for a dreaded task we’d been putting off for a while: car shopping. While some people find the prospect of…

I am sure that we have all been around that person who seems to always have it all together — beautiful with hair and makeup done, effortlessly trendy clothes, happy kids sent to school with lunch boxes filled with perfectly well-balanced meals, volunteers for everything, gets praised for being awesome,…

Following feedback from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Larimar Therapeutics is on track to soon submit an application seeking accelerated approval — which gets a drug to patients but still requires additional testing — of nomlabofusp, its protein replacement therapy for Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). Larimar recently…

I’ve heard the term “wheelchair-bound” in the media a lot lately. I hate those words. I use a wheelchair because of the symptoms of the disease I have, Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). These symptoms — muscle weakness and neurological problems — mean that at this point in my FA…

Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) affects my abilities, mood, energy levels, major musculoskeletal functions, and choices. It determines my days in ways far beyond what a 23-year-old newly diagnosed me could imagine. It is a lot to process. But, like most things, I get kind of “used to” it. New adaptations can…