by The nine-time Grand slam tennis champion Monica Seles has shown that they “live with a new normal” after a rare chronic neuromuscular disease was diagnosed three years ago.
Sehs was announced that in 2022 it causes myasthenia gravis (mg), a disease that causes muscle weakness.
The 51-year-old informed the Associated Press that she first noticed the symptoms of the disease while playing tennis.
The Serbian-American tennis-greater said: “I would play with some children or family members, and I would miss a ball. I said:” Yes, I see two balls “.
“These are obviously symptoms that you cannot ignore.
“And this trip began for me. And it took me some time to really record it and speak openly about it because it is difficult. It influences my daily life a lot.”
Seles, who won their first big trophy at the French Open from 1990 at the age of 16 and played their last game in 2003, also experienced weakness in their arms and legs and said: “Only blow out my hair … became very difficult”.
She said she decided to speak publicly about her condition for the first time before the US Open, which begins on August 24th to raise awareness.
The America’s National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Strokes calls it “a chronic neuromuscular disease that causes the weakness of the voluntary muscles” and “most often young adult women (under 40) and older men (over 60)”, but … at any age, including childhood “.
It is an autoimmune disease used to describe a state in which the body’s immune system incorrectly attacks its own healthy cells, tissues and organs.
The US National Institute of Health have announced that they affect around 1 out of 5,000 people.
Seles, who was included in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009, said that she had never heard of the disease until she saw a doctor about her symptoms and was transferred to a neurologist.
“When I was diagnosed, I said: ‘What?!’,” Said Seles, who works with Ardenx, an immunology company with headquarters in the Netherlands to promote their GO for a larger campaign to help people with MG.
“So here – I can’t emphasize enough – I wish I had someone like me who talks about it.”
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It was three decades since the Seles returned to the competition at the US Open in 1995 and made it to the final, more than two years after being attacked by a man with a knife at a tournament in Hamburg.
“The way you greeted me … I will never forget after my jump -off,” said Seles about the fans in New York. “These are the moments that stay with you.”
Seles said that she is learning a “new normal” these days and characterized her health as another in a number of life steps you had to adapt.
She said: “I had to reset a few times in Tennis – a couple of times. Then obviously my stabbing – I had to go back.”
Seles continued: “And when Myasthenia Gravis was diagnosed: Another reset. But one thing when I say to children I mentor: ‘You always have to adapt you. This ball jumps and you just have to adapt’ and that’s what I’m doing now.”
