Timothy Graf

Posted on: Aug 12, 2018 at 5:43 PM

Connie and I both went to Fremd and were married in '77. We have been living in the same house in WV since 1989 and raised all three of our kids there. In 2016 I got very sick and spent the summer in Johns Hopkins with what was an unknown brain disease. In October of 2017 I was finally diagnosed by WV University Medical Center as having CLIPPERS Disease, which is an autoimmune disease that attacks the brain. CLIPPERS is so rare that there are less than 60 people in the world that have it, and there is not a lot known about the cause or treatment of the disease. I was in and out of the hospital every three or four months, but I am on a new treatment that has had me out of the hospital now for over 7 months! yea! Anyway, I'm just celebrating every day being able to be with family and I also enjoy reading about all the friends I grew up with in high school.