{"id":59249,"date":"2021-02-22T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/hudsons-story-in-honor-of-rare-disease-day\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T23:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:42:16","slug":"hudsons-story-in-honor-of-rare-disease-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/hudsons-story-in-honor-of-rare-disease-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson&#8217;s Story in Honor of Rare Disease Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">I faced lot of challenges both socially and academically throughout my life. However, with a lot of love from my mother and godly mentors, I was able to overcome many of those struggles. I graduated with four science degrees in community college and taught at a private school as a preschool teacher. These achievements were both dreams come true. Later in life\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">I was diagnosed with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Klinefelter and Di<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ge<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">orge\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">syndrome. Rare<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Disease Day is important to me because I believe that h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">aving a rare disease d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">oes not\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">define who you are<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0it challenges you to go the extra mile<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">We in the rare community<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">are all awesome people with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">great potential<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">To those outside of the rare community without a rare disease, I would ask that you l<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">ook at us with compassion and an\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">outstretched<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0heart<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">. As a member of the rare community, I will be showing my stripes this Rare Disease Day by<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">reaching out to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">others<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0with rare disorders<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">!\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">I have two beautiful nieces with DiGeorge and Down syndrome<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> whom I will celebrate by reaching out to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I faced lot of challenges both socially and academically throughout my life. However, with a lot of love from my mother and godly mentors, I was able to overcome many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/hudsons-story-in-honor-of-rare-disease-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hudson&#8217;s Story in Honor of Rare Disease Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,505,1827],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patients-members","category-patient-stories","category-rare-disease-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}