“I’m Turning to Stone”: Choosing to Live Fully with Scleroderma
“I’m part gargoyle is what I tell people. Because I’m turning to stone. I literally am.”
Shutes was living the dream—college basketball national champion, Player of the Year, in the best shape of her life—when strange symptoms started appearing. Numbness in her hands. A sore that wouldn’t heal. She was initially misdiagnosed with lupus before a doctor recognized the signs and finally told her the truth: she has scleroderma, a rare and incurable autoimmune disease.
Scleroderma causes the body to produce too much collagen, creating a kind of fibrosis that hardens the body from the inside out…
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