Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

It seems Ngo Quang Thi has been fighting all his life. As a third-grader, he received an injection to help him overcome a fever, but the injection drove him into a coma. He became violently ill, developing a rash over his body. His skin began to peel off and blisters formed in his mouth, nose and eyes. He was later diagnosed with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS), a rare but life threatening allergic reaction to medication. Because of the scarring on his eyes, he began to lose vision immediately.

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Judy Ziegler’s eyes had endured a lot over the years. In 1995, the Myersville, Maryland woman experienced severe scarring in her eyes when she had an adverse reaction to medication resulted in toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN).

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Rachel, known as SpunkyRachel online, says she was caught off guard by friends – both old and new – who had seen her videos on YouTube. She had posted several of them these past few months – some with her bald head uncovered and her dark skin blotched with white patches.

Rachel was looking for others like her – people who had taken common medication, like ibuprofen from the super market, and had a severe adverse reaction called Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) or its most severe form toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN).

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