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Originally posted by KSigkid
Does anyone know how long she had the disorder for? I would think it was a significant amount of time to cause that much damage.
It seems that was the basis for the malpractice claim as well; her doctors did not diagnose the disorder correctly, and her family won a malpractice claim. I'm guessing that money has been used to keep her alive all this time (unless the hospital is paying for it as part of the suit).
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This article mentions her starting to diet her senior year in high school. She was 26 when she collapsed, so assuming her disorder developed when she first started dieting, that's about 8 years.
ETA: That article was written in 2000, and at that time most of the $700,000 remained. Of course, that was five years ago.
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Here is an article published last week that discusses the money and that there is only about $40,000 remaining.
edited again b/c i had the wrong age.