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My teen daughter has Crohn's

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By cmfrizzell

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My 16 year old daughter, Farrah, was recently diagnosed with Crohn's at the end of December. We were visiting Orlando, FL for two weeks and arrived on Christmas Day.

Farrah started vomiting and was passing blood. We thought the blood was from a fissure.
My husband took Farrah to an emergency hospital. Farrah was then transferred by ambulance to the Children's Hospital in Orlando.

She spent 6 days in hospital. After several tests, she was diagnosed. Doctors told my husband she was very sick. We flew back to Canada on Jan 8, 2018.

Farrah took different antibiotics and started prednisone. She is still having stomach pain but no longer passing blood. Her joints hurt a lot. She will see a GI specialist on Jan 15th.

So I am learning a lot about this terrible disease.

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