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How a bond formed through bracelets is fighting a rare brain disease.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 30-NOV-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: How a bond formed through bracelets is fighting a rare brain disease.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Catherine Edman Daily Herald Staff Writer

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CORRECTION/date 12-01-2006: The incorrect school was listed for Ann Banfield, profiled in some Thursday editions. She is a health teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard.

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Baylie for Brains

Caring Bridge

Years of excruciating pain and nearly a dozen brain and spinal surgeries had taken their toll on Ann Banfield.

Another operation last winter for the rare disease that sapped the 32-year-old Glenbard South High School teacher's strength and convinced her body it housed a brain tumor that didn't exist left her exhausted. And depressed.

A little Internet surfing might help, she reasoned. Perhaps some new tidbit about pseudotumor cerebri would offer a needed dose of hope....

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