Carter, B. (2014, October 23). Sheryl and myasthenia gravis: how I cope! YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZU2nTf6_cc
This video was about Sherly, a 16 year old girl with myasthenia gravis. Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that weakens the voluntary skeletal muscles over time. She talks about medications that can help her disease and other medications that might help someone else. She also talks about how she can stay in communication with her friends in school like through social media, text, FaceTime, etc. She makes it known that she can still do normal everyday things like taking her little sister for short walks. It just takes her a while to recover from the activity. She even gets involved with her staff members with paintings.
This video taught me a little bit about what myasthenia gravis is and even showed me that someone with this disease can still live a complete and fulfilling life. She is still involved with her sports team by cheering them on, she gets to go on vacations and she has a successful social life. Although her life doesn't look the exact same as the "average" 16 year old in high school she still gets to experience pretty much everything that all the 16 year old girls get to do.
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