Portuguese man endures 43 years in wheelchair after wrong diagnosis

‘A man who spent over four decades in a wheelchair learned to walk again after learning that doctors misdiagnosed him with muscular dystrophy at the age of 13. The man actually suffers from a much less severe illness which can be managed with medication.
Rufino Borrego was diagnosed with incurable muscular dystrophy at a Lisbon hospital, according to Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias. Accepting his fate, Borrego used a wheelchair to get around that entire time.
But in 2010, decades after Borrego had come to terms with the fact that he would never walk again, a neurologist told him that he didn’t actually have muscular dystrophy. Instead, he suffered from a different disease that weakens the muscles, known as myasthenia.’
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