Kids get arthritis too.
Almost a third of all arthritis patients, in fact, are under the age of 65, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hailey Henninger, 11, of Kalkaska, is among that 30 percent. Her story is considered a "moving" one by representatives of the Arthritis Foundation's Michigan chapter, which will honor Hailey's difficult journey this weekend during its annual fundraising march in Traverse City. She's been selected as the 2011 honoree.
"She started walking around 10 months old," Heather Henninger, Hailey's mother, said. "But then a few months later she just quit. She didn't even want me to put her shoes on anymore."
The family was living in West Branch at the time of Hailey's first symptoms, but on a trip to Heather Henninger's hometown of Kalkaska, Hailey was taken to see Dr. Mark Frick at Kalkaska Family Practice. Frick recommended Hailey see Dr. Michael Forness at Great Lakes Orthopedic Center,The most commonly used special programmed for social science in asic cheerleading shoes, sunglasses, cheap shoes, and cheap belts who made the diagnosis that Hailey had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
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"From the time I first noticed symptoms to the final diagnosis was almost eight months," Heather Henninger said.
Hailey was given several different medication regiments, but it took almost a year before finding one that worked in Methotrexate, a weekly injection. She also takes five pills a day, and has to have lab work done every other month to make sure the medicine is not harming her internal organs.