Patient Profiles & Gaucher Videos

When you face a new challenge, it helps to learn from someone in a similar situation. Many individuals with Gaucher disease have been helped by talking and listening to others who have "been there.” The videos below are excerpted from a DVD A Message to Elijah produced by the National Gaucher Foundation (U.S), and featuring Elliott Gould narrating. The DVD includes interviews with Gaucher patients about their experience and illustrates the medical science and symptoms of Gaucher disease. For more information, contact the National Gaucher Foundation.

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Ted Meyer & Anndi McAfee Discuss their First Symptoms

Ted Meyer discusses his art and his experience of Gaucher disease as child. Anndi McAfee discusses her first noticing as a child her hair and teeth changing appearance and her stomach becoming distended.
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Inheriting Gaucher Disease

View this clip that uses playing cards to illustrate how genes from a mother and father can combine to pass on Gaucher disease.
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Ted Meyer & Bone Crisis

Ted Meyer describes what it is like to experience a bone crisis, and learn how Gaucher diseae causes this painful condition.
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Common Symptoms

Several patients and Elliott Gould discuss common symptoms and how Gaucher disease leads to these signs & symptoms.
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