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IC Awareness Daily Fact #10 – Children With IC/BPS Face Many Struggles

(By Jill Heidi Osborne, ICN President) It's hard enough to face pelvic pain as an adult, but can you imagine being a young child who can't sleep through the night, can't sit through class and who may not be believed by their families or doctors? Children as young as three years old have been diagnosed with [...]

By icnjill|2023-09-10T19:17:12-07:00September 10th, 2014|Announcements, Daily Facts|Comments Off

IC Awareness Daily Fact #7 – The Impact of IC on Families

IC affects not only the patient but also the extended family. Parents with IC worry about their ability to support their family. Children wonder why their parent cannot attend normal daily functions, like baseball games, and often mistakenly assume that a parent is dying. The ICN has written a children's book "My Mom Has IC: [...]

By icnjill|2023-10-05T20:23:07-07:00September 7th, 2014|Announcements, Daily Facts|Comments Off