My name is Marivictoria. In the year 2007, I started suffering from joint pains and it became serious in the year 2009 so I was admitted at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for two months. During my admission, I was diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) which is a chronic remitting and relapsing autoimmune disease.

Before I was diagnosed with JIA, my family thought it was something spiritual so I was taken to different kinds of churches for my healing and also to go back to school but still there was no improvement and it was rather getting worse.

I lost all hope and thought I would die because it got to a time I was not able to talk or move. After I was diagnosed and discharged from the hospital, I realize my life had changed because I was not able to do some of the things I used to do just because I wanted to avoid having a flare up. Now, by the help of God, my doctor and my drugs, I am able to prevent having continuous flare ups. 

I just hope and pray that one day God will heal me completely.