Rare Illness

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease, than what sort of disease a patient has. William Osler

An intimate, personal and surprisingly life-affirming story with a rare illness, Guillain-Barr? syndrome, at its heart. Director Xavier Alford is finally confronting an illness he has been hiding from family, close friends and even himself. Locked In: Breaking the Silence follows him trying to make sense of the mysterious illness that has taken over his life in the only way he knows how - by making a film about it. What is it like to get a diagnosis of an incredibly rare condition that turns your whole world upside down? No-one can tell you why or how you got it, not even doctors. No-one knows how to beat it and there is no cure.

"Dr. Rupy is part of the new generation of physicians teaching people that food is medicine."—MARK HYMAN, MD

The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals.

"The gripping prose in this memoir describes a young man, whose life deteriorates from a healthy fitness trainer to the sudden depths of being sick and bedridden with a mysterious illness for years. Jamison's dedication to life, however fragile, and advocacy, however impossible, have brought out this incredible story of survival." —Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

The personally harrowing and medically enthralling story of a family's struggle to save a child from a deadly immune deficiency.