Doctors diagnosed Minnesota high school student Luke Wacohwiak with dermatomyositis and rheumatoid arthritis in 2022. Since then he's had to receive monthly five hour IVIG infusions to fight the autoimmune condition.

"My bad experience with infusions. I kind of dreaded them. I felt isolated. My friends never had to deal with something like this," said Wachowiak.

"The main symptoms are rashes, fatigue and tiredness all the time," Wachowiak told WCCO about his condition.

He's now able to get home infusions, more comfortable than the on-site treatments he started with.

"When he's getting these, they are chronic or long-term therapies and they do help reduce his symptoms," said Dr. Susan Chhen director of home infusion and compounding for Fairview Health Services.

Wachowiak is working on

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