Honorees
As an honoree for Team Challenge, Bridget Manning, 13,
shares her story about the battle she has had with Crohn’s disease.
“I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in late August of 2006 but it was a
struggle to diagnose me. I had been getting sick randomly in the summer and
getting tired very easily. I was also losing weight, and it was not just
puberty. I met with Dr. Grand in late August in Boston
and a few days later I was hospitalized and had a colonoscopy that confirmed
that I had Crohn's. I was hospitalized six more times due to the fact that they
could not find a medicine that kept it under control. I have been on Pentasa, Mercaptorpurine (6MP), and I am now on
Methotrexate and it seems to be working! I think that the half marathon would
help the CCFA because they would have more funding for more research and
possibly find the gene they were looking for and they can choose medicines that
will keep Crohn's and ulcerative colitis under control. That could possibly
lead to a cure.”