Health

Latisha Gardner

Description

On this episode, host Michelle Turner talks to New Havener Latisha Gardner about her constant battle with Scleroderma, a chronic connective tissue disease classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Gardner is currently running a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for her treatment at Yale New Haven Hospital, where a team of doctors is working to address the lung disease, esophageal and gastrointestinal complications, and physical pain that have accompanied the original diagnosis.