Can you describe the journey to Victor’s MG diagnosis?
Iris: The entire year of 2017 led up to that MG diagnosis. Victor started getting symptoms, one by one. The first one was an issue with swallowing.
Victor: The doctors thought it was a GI problem.
Iris: Yeah, but the GI treatments didn’t help. Then you had double vision, so we went to the ophthalmologist.
Victor: They couldn't find anything wrong. But everything was adding up: the swallowing issue, the double vision, the inability to hold up my head…
Iris: We went to a bunch of doctors. But it was our own doctor who eventually figured it out. He had started researching MG after we came in because he’d never seen it before. But things went downhill quickly after that—the diagnosis and the hospitalization were only days apart. Victor was diagnosed on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. By Sunday he couldn’t drink water and needed to go to the hospital.