It is the morning of pairs figure skater Alexa Scimeca Knierim’s wedding, and she has to push back her hair and makeup appointment.
Scimeca Knierim has been awake since 1 a.m., vomiting.
“There was no way to describe or call what I was going through when I was getting sick,” she recalls. “We just kept calling them episodes.”
For several months last spring and summer, Scimeca Knierim had episodes of vomiting, typically lasting 10 to 12 hours, every few days, suffering from a rare condition she refers to as “a series of binding internal issues.