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A Brief Examination of The Skin Condition Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa
One night while I was clicking through the menu on the digital cable guide I saw a program titled, The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, filmed by TLC (The Learning Channel). With such an attention grabbing title I couldn't resist. It was a documentary that featured a young man named Jonny Kennedy. Jonny lived in the U.K and was diagnosed with Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa as a young child. The severity of the condition was immediately apparent by the physical condition of the boy. Continuous pain and discomfort was quite obvious and his mother had to constantly care for him by taking care of his wounds and bandages. It took the boy's mother and a nurse to take care of him and the attention he needed was a 24 hour a day job. The devastation EB can have on not only the person suffering from it but the family is enormous. The severity of EB was summed up in one sentence when Jonny says at one point in the program......

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