The 14-year old Warsaw teen encourages other teens to manage their illnesses while battling her own autoimmune disease during COVID-19
Battling an autoimmune disease is facing a different reality during the pandemic....trying to figure out how to remain healthy as the virus spreads.
Fox 55 mallory beard is live in the studio to tell us more about the young woman's experience after having to get infusions every four weeks just to maintain her health.?
Thank you brianna, now i met with katherine alderfer several months ago when she was facing a shortage of hydroxychloroquine, just one medicine she needs to survive.
Now her mother tells me she faces a shortage of another medicine come next year.
Kris ine alderfer//katherine mom he said i sorry to tell a major there shortage of this, and we don know that your daughter will get her life saving medication.
Was told these words two years ago doctor.
Ughter was diagnosed when i was when i w s four and i don totally remember all of it.
Katherine has juvenile dermatomyositis.
An autoimmune inflammatory disease of muscles skin and blood vessels, making it difficult for katherine to be in the sun.
F course all my friends are just so much more exciting and fun and so you e not quite as motivated whene at home.
Katherine and her twin sister started at home learning right after halloween.
It was only supposed to last for two weeks, until their father father contracted covid-19?... see anybody or talk to anybody, and definitely kept texting him and calling him, socially distancing of course.
Had to stay apart over the holidays because of her autoimmune disease, but they used facetime and delivered meals to keep their family together.
A message she has for those experiencing rough times during the pandemic as well: katherine// lways make sure you are showing younger people how to be kind and how to live with it so that they can also show other people so you can have an overall better life.
Kat mother says she and other autoimmune patients will experience a shortage of the immunoglobulin treatment i-v-i-g, and she encourages plasma donors to donate to nearby locations as soon as possible.reporting in the studio...mallory beard...fox 55 news
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