Teen with rare disease seeks help to pay for surgery

[Jilly_in_VA]

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!

[Marcus IM]

1. If Cuba can do it, so can the greatest nation on earth.

Of course, education is universal there too.

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

[Docreed2003]

2. It is absolutely criminal that this state refuses to expand health coverage through the ACA

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.