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Thank you to those who participated in the first Gastroparesis
Walk for a cure!
KEEP ON! KEEPING ON!
*Donations will be sent to Tranzyme Pharma biotech who are currently researching and developing new
Gastroparesis drugs.
"You've got to believe deep inside yourself that you're destined to do great things"
-Joe Paterno
Walk An Hour For A Good Cause!
My name is Billie Sweeney and I reside in Winterset, Iowa.
I have had Idiopathic Gastroparesis for 14 years with the last three years being extremely
challenging.
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I was an outgoing college athlete whose life was turned upside down when I was diagnosed with
Gastroparesis in 1996. I lost the ability to eat solid foods, my weight declined rapidly, and I was unable to do the things
that were once such a big part of my life. I didn't have the energy anymore. I couldn't go for a drive with my best friend
without vomiting. I couldn't walk down the aisle at my sister's wedding without being injected full of pain medications. MY
LIFE HAD FOREVER CHANGED.
Since that time I have continued to suffer from extreme nausea, pain, vomiting, and dehydration.
it is difficult to function and have a normal life. There have also been chronic, physical and emotional aspects to this illness.
I have to endure numerous feeding tubes, TPN, IV nutrition treatments, and several hospital stays. Imagine never being able
to eat, to taste food, to chew food, to swallow food. At one of the worst points in my illness, I was told that my organs
were feeding off of each other because they weren't getting the nutrition. My body is STILL starving.
I am one of those statistics, where no one knows why I got this illness-Idiopathic Gastroparesis
and I fight daily to live through it. There is currently no specific medication to treat Gastroparesis or a cure. There needs
to be better awareness of the seriousness of this illness and more research has to be done.
Please support those who suffer from Gastroparesis. With your help we will find a cure.
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*All proceeds go towards gastroparesis awareness and research-Tranzyme Pharma
biotech
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