After 30 years of searching for a diagnosis for my bizarre medical symptoms, I found the answers from Dr. Ladd in Corvallis, OR. He is very kind and immensely knowledgeable, and immediately recognized my seemingly unrelated clinical symptoms were all due to a very rare genetic connective tissue disease. Thanks to a firm diagnosis from Dr. Ladd, I am now receiving appropriate treatment, and the lives of several relatives with the disease have been improved and prolonged.