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The young student, who thought he had partied too much during a trip with his friends, was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease just one week after experiencing symptoms. The then-18-year-old student is now encouraging other people to get checked out as soon as possible if something doesn’t feel right. “I knew something wasn’t right. I was struggling to eat anything because my throat was so sore. My lymph nodes were all up down my neck so I just booked a flight home.” he said. In 2018, the then-18-year-old student Tom Hunt, was with friends when he first started feeling unwell. Shortly after, he started feeling…

Two young women, who were formerly conjoined twins, celebrated their 21st birthday and 20th anniversary of their separation. The twins are beautifully stepping into womanhood. The twins, born in July 2001, just turned 21. They have achieved the milestone that many didn’t think was possible for the twins. The twins were 1 year old when they were put under separation surgery. They were joined at the head, a rare condition that affects only about one in every 2-and-a-half million babies. Josie Hull and Teresa Cajas traveled from a small village to undergo high-risk separation surgery at UCLA in 2002. Dr. Mark Urata,…