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Overcoming M.E., A Daughter's Struggle To Find Treatment Locally For Severe Pain
Thursday 21 November 2019
From US newspaper The Dickinson Press:
 Jenna Montgomery, center, struggles daily with the symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis. Finding care providers locally who even understand the condition has been impossible. With her mother, Virginia Alexander, and husband, Ben Montgomery, they work to create greater awareness of the condition. (Submitted Photo) |
Overcoming M.E., a daughter's struggle to find treatment locally for severe pain
Nothing is more frustrating and heartbreaking than being unable to help someone who is in great pain, especially when that person is a loved one.
For Virginia Alexander, that person is her daughter, Jenna Alexander-Montgomery.
Jenna, 28, suffers from myalgic encephalomyelitis, a more severe version of chronic fatigue syndrome.
Alexander works now to create greater awareness of the disease and her daughter's difficulty in getting the treatment she needs.
"People just don't get it," she said. "If you throw the word 'cancer' out there, people would get it, but because it's not cancer and it's something nobody's familiar with, we just don't get the response to the fundraisers we've tried to do to help her financially through what's she going through."
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