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A joint memoir written by mother and son. Exploring the role and methods of advocacy in medical healing, the current state of the health care system from a personal perspective. Providing insights into fighting for a childs welfare in the health care system. Celebrating the resilience of the human spirit, and the strong bonds of family. A few words from teenager Kevin Whiting, June 2009: Listening literally saved my life. For a year and a half, I told doctors over and over again that the pain in my stomach was real. And not just everyday paper-cut pain. I am talking extreme, intense pain. I could not function, go to school or even eat. And instead of listening, the doctors completely ignored me, told me I was depressed and bulimic, and threw ten prescriptions for anxiety and depression at me. Obviously I was not depressed, so the anti-depressants made me depressed, and at times even suicidal. I was knocking at deaths door for nearly 18 months...

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