Canadian Living – September 2019

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TEXT LISA VAN DE GEYN

occasion

to the

Rising

“It was during a family trip to the Cayman Islands when I

noticed that after walking for a few minutes, my right foot

would drop. Basically, it would lose strength and instead of

transitioning from heel to toe when I took a step, it would flop

flat on the ground,” says Toronto-based editor Hina P. Ansari,

who quickly dismissed this strange occurrence as a side

effect of being out of shape. But after casually mentioning

it to her father, a surgeon, Ansari ended up seeing a

neurologist, who immediately referred her to a specialist.