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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

I am looking for links and information on Crohn's Disease?  I have done 
some research and am loooking for more first hand information.  A list 
member emailed some information several months ago and now I am looking 
for more.

I am currently in North Carolina, planning on leaving in the morning.  
My daughter in law has Crohn's and has had several nasty bouts.  They 
have attempted to control with medicines with some success but she is 
getting worse.  This last weekend she had a reaction to a treatment.  It 
is a very expensive bi monthly treatment ($8000) and was a last effort 
before surgery.  The reaction caused her heart began to fail then her 
lungs filled.  She was put in ICU, heavily sedated and had breathing 
help.  Early Sunday morning our son called and was in tears, she was 
given a less than 50% chance of survival.  So by mid morning we were 
heading for Asheville.

I had spent the last two weeks in California getting my little pickup 
and a backup generator.  I left Sunnyvale on Thursday morning heading 
east and onto a miserable trip.  I had to buy four tires, take a tow 
truck ride, fight with the spare tire carrier in deep dust, and was the 
second person to come upon a nasty accident.  All in all not a trip to 
repeat.  I arrived home late Saturday night and headed east mid Sunday 
morning.

She has been steadily improving all week and today they took her off 
sedation and breathing assistance.  She came around and this evening was 
able to talk with us and may be taken out of ICU tomorrow.  Sometime in 
the next 7 to 10 days she will have an operation on her Colon.

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU