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A Gruesome Way To Go

My sister-in-law suffers from Mitochondrial Disease. She had various symptoms throughout her life but they were all misdiagnosed. However, she had three children and the last of the three children was sick from birth. It took about 2 years for the doctors to finally diagnose my niece. Since Mitochondrial Disease is hereditary, my sister-in-law was finally […]