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Mz Pip

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11. Incredible diagnosis

Reply to AmyStrange (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2013, 03:34 PM

Aug 2013

It's pretty amazing that they were able to get an accurate diagnose. 128 cases in 50 years is about as obscure of a disease as they come.

Yay to the doctors who got it right and got her treatment.

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