Fiona Cauley
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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
It's like the lollipop question.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
Oh, you're out and it catapults you out.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
Because all I do is sit.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
Yeah, it's a disease, a disability.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
It's called Friedreich's ataxia.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
So it's like a really rare neurological disease and it's progressive.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
And there are like 5,000 people in the U.S.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
And the only difference between us, the reason you can walk and I can't, is I don't make enough of a protein called frataxin.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
And that's kind of it.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
Like, both my parents were carriers, didn't know.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
#634 - Fiona Cauley
And then they had kids and were screwed up.