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Hope Fading Fast For Mahwah EMT Battling Crohn's: 'It's Not Easy' Hope Fading Fast For Mahwah EMT Battling Crohn's: 'It's Not Easy'
Hope Fading Fast For Mahwah EMT Battling Crohn's: 'It's Not Easy' Excitement and relief washed over Isabelle Mendez as she prepared for surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in June 2014. Just two years after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and six months after having her colon removed, the then-16-year-old was going for an ileostomy reversal and JPouch creation -- expected to give her  the equivalent of a healthy person's colon. For the first time in years, Mendez of Mahwah had hope that she would soon be returning to life without pain, frequent bathroom trips and the stigma of being "different." That hope slipped away from Mendez a l…

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by Cecilia Levine