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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Danielle Desouza

Mother of girl with connective tissue disorder to don cape for 10k to find cure

The mother of a girl with a connective tissue disorder is to don a cape for a 10k which ends at Downing Street in a bid to find a cure within her daughter’s lifetime.

Bonnie Jackson lives in Chislehurst, south-east London, with her nine-year-old daughter Mia, who has Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Veds), the most severe form of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – a condition which affects blood vessels and internal organs and can cause them to split open.

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