Olympian KathleenBaker2 talks about her Crohn's disease diagnosis & training during the coronavirus pandemic.
When swimmer Kathleen Baker started shedding pounds at the age of 12, she knew something wasn't right, but was hesitant to admit it. She was already an elite athlete at that point with not much weight to lose."I ran fevers for weeks and weeks on end," Baker told POPSUGAR during an interview about her partnership with."I had pretty much every gastrointestinal symptom you could think of: diarrhea, blood in diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, heartburn, stomach pain.
Crohn's, however, didn't stop Baker from winning two medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics . It didn't stop her from, either. She found doctors who she said supported her goals and understood that she was so much more than"just Kathleen with Crohn's disease," she noted. She had Olympic dreams, was a competitive swimmer, and also wanted to do things that teenage girls were able to do .
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