HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) – Primary biliary cholangitis, or PBC, affects less than 1% of the population. Doctors do not know exactly what causes it, and there is no cure. Now, a Western North Carolina woman is teaming up with others to help people recognize the subtle symptoms of this sometimes debilitating disease.
Hilary Paradise lives in Hendersonville and lives with PBC.
“My cholesterol levels were over 300. And so I couldn’t get life insurance. And then I just was itching so bad. I mean, I couldn’t have anybody touch me,” Paradise said…