{"id":35178,"date":"2025-04-20T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35178\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T08:54:11","slug":"i-sold-everything-i-owned-fearing-id-get-the-same-fatal-genetic-disease-then-came-a-miracle-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35178\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I sold everything I owned, fearing I\u2019d get the same fatal genetic disease \u2013 then came a miracle drug\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Rosaline Callaghan saw her father die from the hereditary condition transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rosaline Callaghan was 47 when she learned she had a high chance of developing ATTR amyloidosis. Photo: Neil Hainsworth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Rosaline Callaghan.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rosaline Callaghan was 47 when she learned she had a high chance of developing ATTR amyloidosis. Photo: Neil Hainsworth<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Rosaline Callaghan hit her early 50s, she feared she was a ticking timebomb and it was only a matter of years before she would be struck with a rare and fatal genetic condition that blighted her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;I sold my house and my car and decided to go travelling,\u201d she said. \u201cI did not want to regret it if I was confined to bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosaline Callaghan saw her father die from the hereditary condition transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis Rosaline Callaghan was 47 when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[20365,267,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-35178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-genetics","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114369453464364809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}