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Mark Opauszky shares his story of unbelievable resilience in his fight against necrotizing fasciitis.
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Alzheimer's Speaks: Daniel Hight
Lori La Bey talks with Daniel Hight, the founder of More Than Our Story. After being diagnosed with incurable brain cancer, he decided to create a platform to bring people together through sharing their stories and realizing we’re never alone.
Daniel’s work is so helpful to many, as his interviews are inspiring, and amplify how similar we are, no matter what we are going through in life, including how we can care for others, how we need to learn to ask for help, and how to be gracious, letting others care for us when we need assistance.
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Daniel
Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit.
Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.
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