Edmonton Sun profiles local AS sufferer

Canada's Sun newspaper chain has been surprisingly good at covering ankylosing spondylitis, usually through the prism of a local person afflicted with our fun disease (see previous entries: 1, 2, 3). Today's Edmonton Sun adds another one, with a look at a local resident with a profoundly severe case, 37-year-old Gian Carlo Grande. To put it bluntly, he's not in good shape, even by our standards: unable to find work, single, worn out by daily tasks.

But I think the article's count of 400,000 Alberta residents with the disease is a typo: that'd be more than one in 10 people. (If that were the case, I think my supervising professors at the U of A would have been more familiar with, and sympathetic to, my condition than they were.) It's probably closer to 40,000.