Brave Danika The TRUTH behind her TUMMY PAIN
Jun 22, 2022
3 minutes
Natasha Pitts, 36, Perth, WA
Clutching her little stomach, my daughter, Danika, four, sighed. ‘Mummy, my tummy hurts,’ she said. Cuddling her, my mother’s intuition told me something was desperately wrong with my little one.
We already knew Danika had neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition causing skin pigmentation and the growth of tumours in the skin, brain, and other parts of the body.
I was diagnosed with NF when I was 10, and my dad, Michael, had been diagnosed in his 30s.
I knew there was
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