Author and advocate of rare genetic disorder is now bedridden and needs funds


  • Living
  • Wednesday, 10 Jul 2019

Foong at the Federal Academy of Ballet two years ago. Photos: Yvonne Foong

If a young woman has shown a tenacious fighting spirit despite battling a debilitating rare disease since she was a teenager, it is Yvonne Foong.

Things took a turn for the worse about a year ago when she suffered a fall, which left her bedridden.

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