Victim of Avascular Necrosis Launches New Website About the Disease
Although avascular necrosis (AVN) affects both men and women between 20 and 50 we know little about it. The scariest fact about AVN is that pain is usually the last symptom.
(PRWEB) July 22, 2005 -- Although avascular necrosis (AVN) affects both men
and women between 20 and 50 we know little about it. The scariest fact about AVN
is that pain is usually the last symptom.
Kyle Cummings is 35 and is a
victim of this little-known disease. He was healthy until he was 30. In the last
five years he has had open-heart surgery, 14 hospital admissions for steroid
therapy, 12 hospital admissions for a serious infections, five of them blood
infections. He had gained 100 pounds from the steroids and can do little else
than lay in a hospital bed.
Despite that Kyle has had two hips replaced
since March, 2005, and is taking a chemotherapy drug for leg ulcers and goes to
painful physical therapy appointments at least twice a week made a commitment to
start a web site for people that feel as alone as he does.
Not too long
ago Kyle decided that if he could do nothing else he could reach out to others
with the same disease and warned healthy people of the symptoms.
Kyle
now has a web sight called disabled in America which has a bulletin board for
those that are disabled and their caretakers to say how they feel.
One
of Kyle's favorite sayings is, "If you decided you were going nowhere, you will
get there."
Kyle has been through medical procedures far and above what
any person should have to deal with. Turning his horrible degenerative bone
disease in to a will to help others using only his small disability check is
amazing.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/7/prweb264128.htm