Ordinary People with Levi Steele
MOGAD, Paralysis, and Faith: How this Couple Held On to God Through a Rare Disease | Zack & Samantha Ward #33
When Zack Ward was diagnosed with MOGAD — Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-Associated Disease — he and his wife Samantha had never heard of it. Neither had most of the doctors they met. Over the next two years, the rare autoimmune disease attacked Zack's nervous system, at times leaving him paralyzed and forcing him to relearn how to walk. In this episode, Zack and Samantha share what those two years actually looked like: the hospital stays, the uncertainty of a condition so little is known about, the slow work of physical recovery, and what it does to a marriage when one person's body stops cooperating. They talk honestly about the fear, the questions they brought to God, and how leaning on Him became a daily lifeline. If you're walking through a chronic illness, a rare diagnosis, or a season where you're not sure God is still moving — this conversation is for you.
