Glenda Williams

I have spent thirty years in healthcare, about twenty of them in healthcare IT. I also live with multiple sclerosis, and I have a history of breast cancer. So I know this world from both sides of the desk: the professional side, and the side where you are the patient trying to be heard in a ten-minute appointment.

That second side is why my husband Jack and I built Valeska. I could not find a symptom tracker that was quick, private, and actually useful. The tools I needed did not exist, so we made one. Every design decision still runs through me, because I am the person it was built for.

What I write here comes from real life: the doctor visits, the flares, the brain fog, the long list of meds, the days you feel fine and the days you do not. If it helps one person walk into an appointment feeling a little more ready, it was worth writing.