Sisters Reflect on Growing up Together with SMA - SMA News Today
The Tomko sisters both have scoliosis, treated with rods fused to their spines, and neither woman had expected there would be a treatment for SMA available to them within their lifetimes. They had long accepted the notion that progressive muscle loss was inev…
Sisters often share clothes, friends, hobbies, a bedroom. Heather and Jessica Tomko share SMA.
Heather, 33, of Pittsburgh, was diagnosed with SMA Type 2 when she was one year old, and when her young… [+7226 chars]
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