How Christine Ha, Houston’s blind ‘MasterChef’ winner, is fighting rare disorder that took her sight
Chef, author and MasterChef winner Christine Ha at her restaurant Xin Chào, Thursday, March 24, 2022, in Houston.Christine Ha is a storyteller — with two different outlets for expression.
Ha taught herself to cook, trying to capture those memories of home. As a home cook, she won Season 3 of Gordon Ramsey’s culinary reality show, “MasterChef.” Along the way, she found a new career path in the restaurant industry. “We’re very focused on understanding what the journey is like for people with rare diseases,” he said.Horizon Therapeutics has created the campaign “NMOSD Won’t Stop Me” alongside advocacy groups, NMOwn the Path Forward, Guthy-Jackson Charitable Fund, Siegel Rare Autoimmune Association and the Sumaira Fund.We want to foster conversation and highlight the intersection of race, identity and culture in one of America's most diverse cities.
Distinguishing the two is critical for keeping relapses at bay. Still, each patient has different symptoms — and requires individualized treatment, the neurologist said. Ha joined the Horizon campaign to help others going through diagnosis, who want to better understand NMOSD and find others in the same boat.
The worst time, she said, was when she became paralyzed from the neck down and had to be hospitalized for weeks. After that, she underwent several months of physical and occupational therapy “just to sit up again, use my hands or walk again.” “It coincided with losing my vision,” Ha recalled. “As I lost more, I had to teach myself again how to cook with less and less sight. Each day was a new day,” Ha said. “I would learn again. I kept at it. I got better at it.”
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