Girl, 12, endured six chemo rounds for disease she never had

Faye endured six rounds of chemotherapy, contracted viral meningitis as a side effect, lost mobility, and experienced a severely disrupted childhood due to unnecessary treatment and delayed diagnosis of her actual progressive condition.

A child's earliest years are shaped by the diagnoses adults assign to her body, and when those diagnoses are wrong, the consequences compound quietly until they become irreversible. Faye Condon, a twelve-year-old girl in England, spent seven years receiving chemotherapy for an autoimmune disease she never had, while the progressive muscular dystrophy she actually carries went unnamed and unaddressed. Her mother's persistent questioning eventually led to a correct diagnosis at Great Ormond Street Hospital — but not before the unnecessary treatment had taken her mobility, her childhood, and year

Girl, 12, endured six chemo rounds for disease she never had

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