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A Gut Reaction: A True Story about a Mother's Fight to Save Her Son's Life and His Amazing Recovery from Crohn's Disease
Contributor(s): Curtis, Sky (Author)

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 ISBN: 1771330805     ISBN-13: 9781771330800
Publisher: Inanna Publications & Education
OUR PRICE: $21.80  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2013
* Out of Print *
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients)
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2013464031
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.45 lbs) 150 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author's battle to save her son's life - or at least his large intestine - from a very severe case of Crohn's disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors, one in Canada and the other in Australia, she and her son, who was in his early twenties, finally find a regime of fecal infusions that replaces the bacteria that had ulcerated his gut with a healthy flora donated by his mother. The manuscript details their adventures and then concludes with a helpful summary of how they did it. It includes a foreword by Dr. Thomas Borody, the Director of the Centre for Digestive Diseases in Australia, whose emails and phone conversations helped the author understand what, how, and why to do what was necessary. Sky Curtis's sometimes desperate, often hilarious, and always determined international quest for a treatment for her son's life-threatening Crohn's disease resulted in a new protocol for the treatment of this disease.

Contributor Bio(s): Curtis, Sky: - Sky Curtis is a former magazine writer, educational software designer, editor, playwright, columnist and children's writer. She now writes fiction and non-fiction books for adults. Her most recent book, Doctored, was published by Inanna Publications in 2010. Sky lives in Toronto with her family.
 
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