Thomas Morey was young and healthy in his first real job out of college when his life turned upside down. One day while playing basketball with some friends he just didn’t feel right. The next day, he felt even worse. Soon, he could barely function. It took doctors a while to figure out what was making him so ill: an inexplicable immune hyperactivity disorder.
“What happened was my immune system started killing healthy cells, blood cells, the lining around my lungs, the lining around my brain,” Morey says.
He started having seizures, which in turn led to him needing back surgery for the damage they caused. He went from a great job in the federal government to being told he might never work again.
“I was in and out of the…