From left, Johanna Lindsay of the Arthritis Foundation Pacific Northwest Chapter talks as 9-year-old Sammamish resident Alicia Seidel and her mother, Cynthia, listen. The three met with Lincoln Vander Veen, Constituent Services Liaison for Congressman Dave Reichert, to discuss the proposed Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act. Alicia was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis last summer. - Mark Lowry/Reporter
Sammamish's Seidel family battles juvenile rheumatoid arthritis — at home and afar
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What a difference a year can make. That cliché essentially sums up what Sammamish 9-year-old Alicia Seidel and her family have been through since last August, when she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. An estimated 46 million Americans have some type of arthritis, 294,000 of whom are kids with juvenile rheumatoid... more
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