I am so sorry this happened to your beloved mother. Why is it that as we get older the medical profession overlooks so many diseases and chalks it up to age? My mother is 90 and this has happened to her as well. Where did your mother live? Mine lives in Winston-Salem, NC. You mentioned she lived close to Duke? There are chances she had MG for many years in a very mild form. I had a friend who died of cancer last year and never knew he had MG until the later stages of cancer. Couldn't swallow, the whole bit. We are misdiagnosed so many times. When mine first started, my eye dr. told me it was my fibromyalgia and weak eye muscles causing my double vision. Wrong!

My thoughts and prayers are with you. Kathie Glenn