Lindsey Vonn Recovering from Crohns Disease., Some good news out of Colorado, as skiing champion Lindsey Vonn has said she is on the road back from a “painful intestinal illness” that hospitalized her a few weeks back.
Writing for The Denver Post, Vonn called her illness “very scary,” and conceded that, initially, she wasn’t as concerned about the illness as her doctors. “At first I thought it was just a really bad flu,” she wrote. “I made three visits to the hospital before finally being admitted. They did a bunch of tests, and they were worried that it was Crohn’s disease.”
If the doctors’ diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, which affects the intestinal tract, had been correct, she would have been facing a disease that could have negatively impacted the rest of her career. And, as Vonn noted, other potential chronic problems were on the table as possibilities as well.
Fortunately, Vonn’s symptoms subsided by a proper combination of antibiotics. But weariness persisted: “After I got out of the hospital, I was getting tired walking down the hall of my condo, let alone walking up a couple stairs,” she wrote. “I had to stop every five steps. I felt like I was 100 years old, and I couldn’t even think about skiing.”
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Lindsey Vonn: Recovering from her ‘very scary’ illness
Lompoc Record (blog) If the doctors’ diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, which affects the intestinal tract, had been correct, she would have been facing a disease that could have negatively impacted the rest of her career. And, as Vonn noted, other potential chronic problems … Lindsey Vonn: My pain was ‘out of control’ during hospitalization Larry Brown Sportsall 28 news articles » |
