My best friend alicia is a 23 year-old woman who has been suffering from a severe anaemia for more than 2 years.

She was born with a hip displasy, and limped during her childhood and teenage. At 20, she underwent an osteotomy in the south of france, and the operation didn�t prove very successful. Soon later this operation, she began losing weight and actually never stopped�now she, who used to weigh 60 kg (120 pounds), is all skin and bones. Of course she went to the hospital, but all the examinations only revealed that she suffered from an unexplained anaemia. At first the doctors were even convinced she was anorexic (which has never been the case) and didn�t made immediately the proper examinations. Then she was given several drugs, one of which is a strong dose of morphine.

Now she has moved in another city in france where the doctors are making new examinations, but her health isn�t getting better at all, and she still has to take morphine, since she has become addicted to it. She also has to walk with a crutch, first because she is extremely weak, but also because she sometimes falls without even feeling it coming : suddenly her left leg (the side she was operated on) doesn�t support her anymore and she falls while walking, which has already hurt her quite seriously (the arms and her head too).

No need to tell you how lost she feels�she doesn�t know what pain is consuming her and who could help her. I can tell you that her mental strength has been admirable during all these ordeals but now her spirit seems about to collapse too and finding a new support has become desperately urgent.


So, please, if you have any information about such a disease, if you know a similar case or somebody (a doctor, an organisation�) who could maybe help, or if you only want to tell alicia something, I beg of you to reply to this message,.

at this point, be sure that even a testimony of someone�s interest in alicia�s pain will be appreciated�.

Thank you very much.