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Monday, September 11, 2006
"Multiple sclerosis strikes teens and children, too"
"Jessica Broderick, now 23, was a healthy, active and athletic teen. She started swimming competitively at age 8 and by the time she was a junior in high school, was swimming year-round with two teams. Her junior year at Walkersville High School, 16-year-old Jessica decided to stop swimming so she could pursue other interests. That same year, she began to notice numbness in her legs and arm. The sensation would randomly appear, then disappear. A few times she "tripped" and fell, and would occasionally drop things.....: |