MYM: Wheelchair Bound Teen Jumps Out of Plane in VA | 97.1 WASH-FM
By @TobyChilliShow Ryan Alam was finally able to check a huge thing off his bucket list. Alam is a high school junior with an extremely rare neurodegenerative disease that has left him wheelchair-bound. Although symptoms of his disease began showing up when he was in elementary school, Ryan’s condition was a mystery until recently when he was diagnosed with Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation or NBIA. His version of NBIA is mitochondrial-membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration or MPAN. The diagnosis came after years of doctors, physical therapy, aqua therapy, occupational...
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