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Jilly_in_VA

(10,020 posts)
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 11:50 AM Dec 2023

Teen with rare disease seeks help to pay for surgery

A teenager in Seymour who is fighting a rare bone disease is asking for the community’s help after hitting a roadblock in her treatment.

Kaylee Fisher was diagnosed with osteochondromatosis when she was just nine months old. The condition causes benign tumors to form on growth plates.

The last time Kaylee had a full body scan in 2017, they found 28 tumors inside her body.

“People like me struggle not only medically, but socially, mentally, because, I’ve been in pain pretty much my entire life, and just when you think you make a breakthrough, you get set right back,” Fisher said.

A teenager in Seymour who is fighting a rare bone disease is asking for the community’s help after hitting a roadblock in her treatment.

Kaylee Fisher was diagnosed with osteochondromatosis when she was just nine months old. The condition causes benign tumors to form on growth plates.

https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/east-tn-teen-with-rare-bone-disease-needs-help-to-pay-for-120000-surgery/

What's criminal is that she has to seek help because her insurance denied her. ALL Americans should get this help.SINGLE PAYER NOW!

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Teen with rare disease seeks help to pay for surgery (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 OP
If Cuba can do it, so can the greatest nation on earth. Marcus IM Dec 2023 #1
It is absolutely criminal that this state refuses to expand health coverage through the ACA Docreed2003 Dec 2023 #2

Marcus IM

(2,261 posts)
1. If Cuba can do it, so can the greatest nation on earth.
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 12:21 PM
Dec 2023

Of course, education is universal there too.

The bad news is that rent is limited to ten percent of income.

Docreed2003

(16,887 posts)
2. It is absolutely criminal that this state refuses to expand health coverage through the ACA
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 12:46 PM
Dec 2023

The stubbornness of this legislature and a series of governors has resulted in countless cases like this young woman's, not to mention the fact that rural access hospitals are closing right and left that could potentially have remained open with those funds.

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