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- Rony Korkis’ Testimony

ll sorts of memories and emotions whirled inside him.
His fear of death and thirst for life had aroused complex
feelings he’d never experienced before. The fact that the
Alast moments of his life would be spent in pain added to
his sorrow. The thought of his wife becoming a widow so young
and his leaving her to raise two children by herself broke his
heart and he couldn’t stem the low of tears.

On this day, 33-year-old Rony Korkis, an Iraqi living in the
United States of America, stood rooted to the spot as
he held on to his biopsy result with shivering hands. He
had just tested positive for Erdheim-Chester disease –
a rare type of blood cancer that causes inlammation,
tissue damage and organ failure, ultimately resulting
in death. This condition is medically incurable and the
research on it is limited as there are fewer than ive
hundred cases recorded worldwide.

This diagnosis explained the protracted episodes of
stinging muscular pain, shortness of breath, fatigue,
irregular weight loss, and headache, amongst
others. All was not lost, however, as Rony refused
to resign himself to this fate. He pressed against the
contrary wind of hopelessness until he discovered
the Healing School.

Rony takes us to the beginning of his remarkable
story: “This condition started in January 2017, when
I felt numbness on the left side of my face. The
results from the MRI and CT scans showed that there
were two tumors inside my head. That was what was
causing the numbness. I did more tests, scans and
a biopsy, which revealed that I had a disease called
Erdheim-Chester disease. It’s a very rare blood disease,
with only about ive hundred cases in the world and there
is no cure for it. This disease caused the tissues in my
body to grow abnormally and touch the nerves around my

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