OT: Teen diagnoses her own disease

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doors12

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Posted 6/11/2009 10:19 PM (GMT 0)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/11/teen.self.diagnosis/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Good for her, what an illustration of how long we IBDers often suffer before getting the diagnosis...

Red_34

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Posted 6/11/2009 11:00 PM (GMT 0)

Thanks for sharing that. Goes to show you that we have to be our advocate sometimes.

quincy

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Posted 6/12/2009 5:50 AM (GMT 0)

As well...the integrity of the result is only as good as the person doing the pathology....Some don't see things until they're more obvious...or they just flash them by very quickly.

Awesome...wonder what field she'll be in as a profession..

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Zippy123

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Posted 6/12/2009 2:43 PM (GMT 0)

Now if she can just find a cure

basa0806

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Posted 6/12/2009 3:18 PM (GMT 0)

Must have been nice to go to a school that could afford for you to look at your own intestinal tissue. I wish I had that opportunity when I was in AP courses.
Good for her though!

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