A Rare Disorder That Emerged From Nowhere Nearly Killed This Lake Wylie Man - Charlotte Magazine

A Rare Disorder That Emerged From Nowhere Nearly Killed This Lake Wylie Man - Charlotte Magazine

Ten days into his hospitalization—after he’d resisted the wheelchair, after he’d twice walked out of the hospital, even after he’d suggested that an Uber would be cheaper than the airlift helicopter needed to save his life—Rob Marchand put up another fight. He wanted to see his daughters. No more treatments until he saw his kids. “You can’t tell me that I have to sit here and fight for my life,” he told his doctors, “when I can’t see what I’m fi…