STILL SMILING DESPITE OUR STRUGGLES

THERE are pills of all sizes and colours, capsules, vitamins, painkillers, nasal sprays and inhalers – in fact, there’s so much medication in the room it looks as if Chantelle Olivier is running her own pharmacy.

It’s hard to get your head around it, but all these drugs are necessary to keep the Johannesburg mom and her daughters, Danielle (14) and Danika (12), on their feet. They all have a version of a rare immune disorder with the tongue-twister name immunodysregulation polyendocrinopathy enteropathy X-linked (or Ipex-Like) syndrome. And if that wasn’t