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Article: SURVIVING AGAINST ALL ODDS; CONSTANTIA COUPLE GRAPPLES WITH RARE BRAIN DISORDER.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2004
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Byline: Frank Brieaddy Staff writer
What are the odds?
Kim and Sam Szuck, of Constantia, have thought about that question a lot.
Kim has suffered since birth from a brain disorder known as AVM, or arteriovenous malformation, which affects 10 to 15 out of 100,000 births, according to medical studies. That's less than .02percent of the population, and only about 12percent of that small number of people ever experience symptoms or even know that they have AVM.
When the couple met nine years ago, and even as Sam worked as the executive director of an agency that helps people with brain injuries, they had no idea that Sam, too, had AVM.
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