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Colleen McGrath

When were you diagnosed and with w hat?
It started last April but I wasn’t diagnosed until July. It ’s Chron’s
Disease and Terminal Intestinal Thickening. It ’s an incurable disease that
makes me have constant excruciating pain in my stomach. It gets to the
point where I can’t walk or eat. That caused me to end up losing
a lot of weight.
Do you have any new restrictions because of the disease?
I had to quit dance, which I did since I was five. I had to miss track
and volleyball too, I have to go to a different room sometimes because the

sen Ma<ara+h pain can be unbearable.
Has it gotten any better?
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It has gotten a lot better, four or five months ago I was taking more
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than fifteen pills a day. Wow I ’m down to only six. I was constantly in
madri&al play,
the hospital, doing tests and getting blood drawn. I still have to go there
sometimes but nowhere near what I used to. I also know since there is
no cure, it might go back to how it was before, but right now I ’m
enjoying myself.
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W h a t is it t h a t you d o?
I interview bands that come through town for a tv station, KXVO CWIS,
hand the beat. I come up with the questions and do the research on tl
bands.
How m a n y b a n d s h a v e you in te r v ie w e d ?
I ’ve interviewed about 70 bands.
W ho a r e som e o f t h e m ?
All types of bands, anywhere from Gym Class Heros to Uncle Kracker.
I’ve also interviewed bands like A Day To Remember and the promoter for
Warped Tour.
W h a t w a s one o f y o u r a l l tim e f a v o r it e s ?
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