I Am One of the Immunosuppressed

Living through Covid-19 uncertainty with heightened risk

Christine Elgersma
Elemental
Published in
4 min readMar 14, 2020

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II have MS. My disease-modifying therapy is Rituxan, a chemo drug used off-label for MS. The idea is that, with an autoimmune disease like MS, if you can wipe out the offending B cells, it might slow down the progression of the disease — put it into remission. At least for a while.

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Christine Elgersma
Elemental

Writer, editor, teacher, queer mom, lip synch enthusiast, backseat forensic psychologist & paranormal investigator, car-singer, survivor of an ‘80s childhood.