“I’m not that person anymore” Live Oak teen’s life transformed by rare disease treatment

Danny Federico editor@riverbendnews.org Live Oak native Marley Gaskins is a teenager in the most ordinary ways. She dances. She goes to camp. She spends time with friends, experiments with her hair and makeup, and is already thinking about her future – possibly in cosmetology, maybe at Florida State University. For her and her mother, Tamara Hogue, those everyday moments are anything but ordinary. Not long ago, even something as small as a bug bite could turn into a medical emergency. Now, it barely registers. “Before, I would’ve been really stressed,” Hogue said, recalling a recent moment when Marley noticed a small spot on her leg. “Now I’m like, ‘Ah, you’ll b