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October 20, 2025

 

 

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A Week in Brooke Eby's Life Behind the Phone-Camera Lens Eby has shown her followers what navigating her 30s with a neurodegenerative disease looks like. The Cut goes behind the screen.

By Brooke Eby and Katie C. Reilly

Photo: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

In the past three years, Brooke Eby has gone from Peloton classes to a walker to a wheelchair. In her late 20s, Eby, now 36, noticed a tightness in her left calf that she didn’t understand. The following year, while walking with her Salesforce colleagues in New York City, she couldn’t keep up. She later started limping, unable to lift the front part of her left foot, a symptom called foot drop, which led her to countless appointments with various specialists and doctors.

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