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Local Girl Named the Arthritis Society's Childhood Arthritis Awareness Month Hero for 2013.

Sunday, 31 March 2013 at 11:17

A Tillsonburg old girl is reminding residents that arthritis can impact people of any age. Nine year old Maggie Sanders was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis in her foot, knee and wrist back in May of last year after her parents noticed some swelling in her foot. Maggie says she feels stiff often. "It feels weird, it hurts." She says she has learned a lot about what arthritis is. "It's when your joints get swollen." Maggie's father Ted says his daughter will sometimes wake up with stiffness. "At the beginning we are pretty sure she had the symptoms before the swelling actually came out and we saw the visual big foot. She learned to deal with the pain and hide it very well because she didn't know any different." Community Engagement Coordinator with the Arthritis Society, Dan Knight says one in one thousand Canadian children is living with arthritis in different parts of their body. "It's different for everybody but I know for Maggie it's in her foot. That pain of not being able to play sports some days kind of thing. It varies. I heard a child last year that had arthritis in their eye so you don't think about these things but it can affect you where ever." Knight says if you see inflammation in your child's limbs you may want to have them checked for arthritis as often times it's an ailment you cannot see. Maggie has been named the Arthritis Society's Childhood Arthritis Awareness Month Hero for 2013.

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