She began taking steroids, but they didn’t relieve her symptoms. “I was thinking, I’m going to be bedridden for the rest of my life,” Morse says. “I thought I was going to have to give up the business, because I couldn’t even function.” She could no longer hold goat happy hours, one of the events she held at her farm, or look after the animals herself—which was the hardest part. “They’re my babies, so it’s important for me to be able to do that,” she says.
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