Disability Warriors: The Download

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EP 21 Disability Warriors: The Download. The Disease they call an STD (It's not): Living with HS with Brindley Brooks

EP 21 Disability Warriors: The Download. The Disease they call an STD (It's not): Living with HS with Brindley Brooks8. Sept.33 Min.

They told her she had an STD. She didn't. She had Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) a chronic, painful condition that took her 37 years to fully understand, and one that most doctors, hospitals, and even Social Security still get wrong. In this episode of Disability Warriors, host Michael Liner sits down with Brindley Brooks, founder and CEO of HS Connect, the largest HS patient advocacy organization in the world. Brindley shares her own diagnosis story, why HS patients wait 7–10 years on averag...