Linden resident lives with rare disease
Wed, 08/25/2021 - 5:00am
Linden resident Gary Daniel is fighting Superficial Siderosis, an ultra-rare disorder diagnosed in less than one per three million Americans. Gary spent eleven years enduring countless medical tests during his journey to put a name to the profoundly disabling symptoms that were taking over his life. When a Texarkana neurosurgeon sent him to Advanced Imaging in late 2014 for an MRI, an observant radiologist discovered the cause of his mysterious symptoms. A 1992 cervical tumor surgery had allowed a Dural defect to cause long-term bleeding into his spinal fluid. This bleeding released neurotoxic free-iron molecules, building into a layer on the surface of his brain and spinal cord, resulting in Superficial Siderosis.
