Briand Sanderson:
CLASS OF 1986
Frankfurt American High SchoolClass of 1986
Frankfurt,
McIntosh High SchoolClass of 1986
Peachtree city, GA
Booth Middle SchoolClass of 1986
Peachtree city, GA
Huddleston Elementary SchoolClass of 1986
Peachtree city, GA
Chapel Hill Elementary SchoolClass of 1986
Decatur, GA
Briand's Story
Life
After graduation from Frankfurt American High School in Germany, I went to DePauw University and got my Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science. I was the first triple major at DePauw. I then went on to the University of Illinois and got a Master's degree in Physics and a Master's degree in Computer Science. (Sorry Mr. Holmquist, Chemistry fell to the side at this point.) I then went on to work at NCSA and was the manager for NCSA Mosaic, the worlds first web browser. In 1998 I went out to Seattle, and started working for Microsoft. I worked at Microsoft for 5 years, then went over to work at Real Networks for a year, and came back to work at Microsoft in January of 2004.
Unfortunately in April of 2004 I came down with what has now been diagnosed as Autoimmune Enteropathy. I spent about 60 days in the hospital from April 2004 til ...Expand for more
August of 2004. Every test imaginable was performed on me multiple times, but they weren't able to figure out what was wrong with me. They finally sent me to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After a month there, they made the diagnosis. I was the first case they had ever seen! Autoimmune Enteropathy is an extremely rare disease in adults (we're talking about 10s of known cases world wide) and there is no known treatment.
Since then I have been unable to work, and I am currently residing with my family in Fayetteville, GA. I have had to sell my home in Seattle. There is some hope that a new drug called Remicade might be effective at treating my disease. I have had 2 infusions of Remicade and I'm very optimistic.
You can read about my entire ordeal through my blog, but I am not able to put the URL in my bio. You'll just have to ask me for the url.
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