Brave Butterfly: A Hypoparathyroidism Journey - a Column by Bari Vapnek

The origin story of a brave hypopara butterfly

I am Bari Gordon Vapnek, and I’m thrilled to share my brave journey with hypoparathyroidism here in this new column. Living in Florida, I’m a 51-year-old mother of two: a 25-year-old daughter, Drew, who’s a chiropractor in Atlanta, and a 23-year-old son, Harrison, who’s a sports director for an…