PATIENT STORIES

“I’m blessed.” Not exactly what I expected to be the first comment out of Jennifer Agbay’s mouth. Her next statement? “I may have to get off, as I am having pain.” 

It was while teaching a group fitness class eight years ago that Amanda was first shocked by a sharp pain on the left side of her face. She tore off her microphone, her first reaction, thinking it had shorted out or somehow “gone wrong”.

The answer is simple, like many chronic conditions, Trigeminal Neuralgia steals the lives of sufferers and those close to them.

At 50, Lori Meltzer woke with what she considered to be the worst toothache imaginable.  Frequent visits to various doctors followed: dentists, an Ear Nose and Throat specialist, oral surgeons, orthodontists, neurologists, neurosurgeons.

Jack Williamson is that diamond being squashed and manipulated into a square peg of statistics that indicate women above the age of 50 are more likely to be claimed by this disease. Jack is neither.

Lee Whitwell, NCAA two-time national tennis champion and FMU Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, knows the agonizing destructiveness on a personal level. This former professional tennis player’s nine year struggle with the disease has affected all aspects of her life, from the personal to the professional.

Judy Littleton was like most of us stepping into middle age and seeing possible retirement just around the bend of years. She had dreams for her future

At a time when young girls’ hopes and dreams for the future begin to take bloom, Megan Dever’s personal dreams came to an abrupt halt,