Andrew Hudson
Pere Santamaria was 15 when he developed myasthenia gravis. This autoimmune condition causes extreme muscle weakness and can sometimes lead to breathing difficulties. In Santamaria’s case, it affected the ocular muscles controlling his vision, making him see double.
“It had a tremendous effect on me personally,” he says. “I was becoming an adolescent, and all of a sudden I couldn’t play sports and I couldn’t live a normal life. I had to take very high doses of corticosteroids, which made me swell up like a balloon.”
Worse,…
