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New York Conference Raises Awareness for Gaucher Disease
by Rachel Delia Benaim
November 1, 2016

In 1979, a year after graduating from Quinnipiac University, and newly married, Suzanne Krupskas began to suffer from what she describes as incredible pain. “We were playing tennis,” she recalled, when she felt what was like “thick nails going through my legs and hips—I fell down.” Krupskas, a native New Yorker, spent the next two years seeing different doctors and specialists who could not accurately diagnose. Finally, a couple years later, she learned she had Gaucher Disease (pronounced Go-SHAY), a rare genetic disorder that causes fat to accumulate in cells and organs like the liver, spleen, and brain due to an enzyme deficiency. READ MORE