- In 1999, 21-year old Rockhurst University (Missouri) senior Doug Lindsay suddenly collapsed at home and became bed-ridden for 22 hours/day the next 11 years.
- Doctors were baffled after multiple treatments were ineffective; his mother suffered from the same condition.
- After immersing himself in medical textbooks, Doug discovered that his adrenal glands (above kidneys) were enlarged like tumors, making him too weak to move (bilateral adrenal medullary hyperplasia).
- Doug eventually found a surgeon willing to shrink his adrenal glands and got his life back.
