Shelby Lum
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Staff video journalist at AP health & science. Prev. making videos at the Boston Globe and the Richmond Times-Dispatch 📰🎥 Ohio State alum.
“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain.
After his brain was attacked, he was robbed of decades of his memories -- now he questions who he was during those years he can't remember.
📸 David Goldman
After his brain was attacked, he was robbed of decades of his memories -- now he questions who he was during those years he can't remember.
📸 David Goldman
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain.
After his brain was attacked, he was robbed of decades of his memories -- now he questions who he was during those years he can't remember.
📸 David Goldman
After his brain was attacked, he was robbed of decades of his memories -- now he questions who he was during those years he can't remember.
📸 David Goldman
Take Ruth for example. Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off her rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to send her home, again, without answers. (Incredible photos from David Goldman.)
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Take Ruth for example. Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off her rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to send her home, again, without answers. (Incredible photos from David Goldman.)
3 times a week, Alex Berrios spends 4 hours tethered to a dialysis machine. The grueling treatments at 5 a.m. is the only way the father of two can both stay alive and hold down a fulltime job."People are feeling desperate for a change in the status quo," Berrios said.
December 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM
3 times a week, Alex Berrios spends 4 hours tethered to a dialysis machine. The grueling treatments at 5 a.m. is the only way the father of two can both stay alive and hold down a fulltime job."People are feeling desperate for a change in the status quo," Berrios said.
"If there is an alternative out there to dialysis, definitely," Carl McNew told me. Medications and intermittent dialysis are helping but McNew knows he’ll eventually need a transplant. "I don't necessarily want to live like this and it's a real possibility."
December 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM
"If there is an alternative out there to dialysis, definitely," Carl McNew told me. Medications and intermittent dialysis are helping but McNew knows he’ll eventually need a transplant. "I don't necessarily want to live like this and it's a real possibility."