Tiffany Wedekind, of Columbus, Ohio, is an exceptionally active person who does lots of yoga, runs her own cleaning service, and has an entrepreneurial venture called “Recycled Karma,” which makes homemade candles in reused bottles from local breweries.
But this 41-year-old has already lived long past what medical science tells us should be her life expectancy. Tiffany and her late brother Chad both were born with an often fatal and untreatable genetic condition called progeria, which provokes early aging. While the average progeria sufferer lives only into their teenage years, Tiffany has shown an incredible capacity to live.
