This is a great read... peep if you got sec.

[flaahless]

UCI med student races time to heal his rare disease
MORNING READ: Vincent Whelan is one of about 700 people with a condition that turns muscle into bone. He's studying to find a cure.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/vincent-fop-kaplan-2192231-says-disease

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[chad5871]

What a sad but inspiring story. Thanks for sharing.

 

[supergirl87]

wow, it's so cool that he's taking his own pain and is turning it into something positive. i just read another case of FOP recently and it was a 4 year old. and kids fall down, scrape their knees, etc, so really anything can flare up the condition which is quite sad.

 

[Vihsadas]

It really is a mind-blowing disease. Just the fact that something like that could even exist in biology is like something out of a nightmare fairytale. More power to him, I hope he does find a cure.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

thats truly amazing.

How crazy are some of these really obscure diseases?

 

[coldweatherblue]

interesting article, best of luck to Mr. Whelan. We studied FOP and its defective gene, ACVR1, in physio but I had no idea it was so rare. Crazy disease.

 

[teddybear]

inspirational.