When Nobody Believes You: The Fight for a Diagnosis with October Ramirez

Podcast: The Wheelchair Roundtable -Crushing Stigmas One Episode At A Time · Rico Segovia ATP, S.J. Cimijotti, DPT , & Jody Bennett WABC CEO.

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

Sometimes the hardest part of living with a rare disease isn't the diagnosis—it's getting someone to believe you. On this episode of The Wheelchair Round Table, Rico and Jody Bennett sit down with October Ramirez, Ms. Wheelchair New Mexico 2026, to discuss her journey with MELAS, a rare mitochondrial disease, and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS). After years of experiencing seizures, stroke-like episodes, chronic pain, and other life-changing symptoms, October spent much of her medical journey being dismissed and misdiagnosed before finally receiving answers at age 36. We discuss what it's like to live with mu...