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Article: Brave Barbara's battle.
- Article from:
- Melton Times & Citizen (Melton Mowbray, England)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2008
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WEDNESDAY 4PM: A woman with a rare incurable disease is highlighting the difficulties faced by sufferers.
Grandmother-of-five Barbara Fraser has pulmonary hypertension, a condition only found once in every 1,000,000 people.
It took several years and a battery of tests to diagnose the problem, only to be told it was inoperable.
She said: "My life was shattered, I thought my world had fallen apart. It was shortly before my son's wedding and I didn't know if I would be alive or what condition I would be if I was.
"Thankfully I was there and looked all right in the photographs but I had to have an oxygen mask on for most of it."
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