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Kiara: Morphea Scleroderma
A great victory after so many years of suffering!

Magnolia Flowers by Ione Bridgman, ISN Artist My name is Kiara, I am 19 years old and I have had Localised Scleroderma (Morphea) for 14 years. In all this time I seem to have done nothing more than "jump" from one hospital to another! I was at the Santa Chiara Hospital in Pisa, where they “tortured” me with cortisone injections. Finally, after almost four years of treatments, my last hope arrived in the form of the "De Marchi" Hospital in Milan. Here the doctors managed to stop the disease, which is a great victory after so many years of suffering!

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Italian story edited 7-23-02
Story posted in English: 12-3-02
Email note posted 01-18-05 SLE

Story Artist: Ione Bridgman
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(Italianio) Kiara: Morphea
(Italiano) Morphea Sclerodermia
ISN Translator: Kevin Howell
Kevin Howell is the ISN Translator (Italian to English) for this story. He is a Clinical Scientist for Professor Black at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
ISN Artist: Ione Bridgman
Ione Bridgman ISN Artist Ione Bridgman created original artwork to illustrate this page. She is 90 years old, and lives in New Zealand. Her lovely paintings illustrate many of our pages and the covers of our  Voices of Scleroderma Book Series .
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(Update) Dee B: Limited Scleroderma/CREST Syndrome (South Africa) There is so much I want to add to my original letter after reading more of other peoples stories. I am certainly not getting better but wish I was...
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