When It’s More Than Severe Allergies; Raising Awareness For ‘Most Common, Uncommon Disease’

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DALLAS (CBS) – Emily Thomas remembers feeling ill from the time she was a little girl.
“I couldn’t play sports. There were a lot of things I just couldn’t do because I kind of had the body of an 80-year-old woman,” she explains.
Illnesses that might take others a few days or weeks to recover from, took Thomas much longer to get over.
“When I was in sixth grade, I was out of school for six months with [mononucleosis]. Most peo