Angela
Kidney failure, constant pain and nausea, extreme weakness, and weeks laid up in a hospital bed. Not the kind of life you’d normally describe for a typical, active 15-year-old girl looking forward to celebrating her Sweet 16th birthday, is it? But that’s exactly the kind of harrowing, hellish ordeal I went through back in high […]
Riley
I was under the impression that E. coli could only be contracted by someone eating contaminated food.
Mary
I used to be a healthy, happy triathlete and considered by most as the “life of the party.” I am now a fatigued, shell of my former self.
Lindsey
We spent three days running tests, with no luck in finding the cause of my symptoms.
Linda
How could she know that this meal would change our lives forever?
Elizabeth
She felt as if she went to sleep she would never wake up again…
Chase
I kept begging God, “Please, just let him get well and come home!”
Charlotte
Her pediatric rheumatologist said to take her to the doctor as soon as we could…
Brandi and Tanner
I called and was assured that the restaurant we went to did not serve the juice. Several weeks later we would have genetic fingerprinting that pointed right back to that restaurant.
Anne
About four years ago, at the age of thirteen, I contracted E. coli O157:H7. The toxins spread to four of my major organs: my heart, brain, pancreas, and my kidneys. All in all, I was in the hospital for one month. Two weeks of which were spent in ICU. After leaving the hospital I still had another […]