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From: wolf on 16 Jul 2008 22:22 I am contacting you because the 14-year old daughter of a close colleague was stricken suddenly with a debilitating illness a little over one year ago. � The cause of Jenny�s illness remains a medical mystery. Finding relevant comparables � fast � could help to solve that mystery and thus provide a crucial clue to finding the treatment that could save Jenny�s life. � Time is of the essence because Jenny is now a quadriplegic and is losing the struggle to breathe. Therefore, Jenny�s family appeals to you to bring any potential comparables to their notice by sending an e-mail to jenjensfamily(a)gmail.com. � If you click through to the blog (http://jenjensfamily.blogspot.com/), you�ll see that some doctors suspect she has a rare form of ALS. There is also a possible link to the HPV vaccine, given that her third Gardasil injection occurred not long before her family began noticing the first symptoms of her illness, but doctors are not sure whether Gardasil played any role in Jenny�s illness. Many world-class MDs have been consulted and many treatments tried Immunoglobulin, prednisone (oral and pulse), plasma pheresis, and Cytoxan, have been tried based on the assumption of an autoimmune process, with no apparent effect. A mitochondrial cocktail has been tried based on the assumption of a mitochondrial disorder. Lithium and Rilutek have been tried based on the assumption of a neurodegenerative disease. Jenny may have had certain pre-existing autoimmune and/or genetic vulnerabilities that rendered her susceptible to a catastrophic reaction to the HPV vaccine. They are an autoimmune skin disease (pityriasis lichenoides), a maternal grandmother who died of progressive supranuclear policy, and a maternal cousin with severe autism/seizures.� Jenny also has only a single copy of the SMN-2 gene (but otherwise does not satisfy the preconditions for SMA). � We are desperately looking for two things: 1) Other cases that might be comparable to Jenny�s. Please read the sidebar in blue (�Am I a Comparable?� http://jenjensfamily.blogspot.com/). Do you know of anyone who might fit the description? 2) Any doctors you know who might have come across cases like Jenny�s in their practice. Can you help get the word to doctors around the world?
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