My BLA is scheduled for September 2nd. It's real now! I will finally be trading up - getting rid of Cushing's Disease in exchange for Addison's Disease. Nothing else too exciting to say about that. It seems so far away but too soon all at the same time. Recently I've been wanting to steal every single one of Melissa's blog posts :) Go check out her blog at Cushing's Moxie - Fighting the Worst Disease You've Never Heard Of This article made me really sad - the emotional and cognitive symptoms of Cushing's have definitely been some of the hardest for me to deal with. Academics came easily to me throughout middle and high school, but once I got to college I started having trouble focusing and couldn't seem to wrap my head around complex concepts. I couldn't study for tests, I felt like I had no memory. It didn't help that my messed up sleeping pattern made me too tired to go to class some days. Everyone (myself included) assume
(Formerly known as Life with Cushing's)