Informed last summer that the only hope for their son’s Crohn’s disease was to remove his colon, John and Brenda Ricci made good on a vow. “We always said if it ever gets real serious we would [switch] to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,” says Brenda of the life-altering surgery prescribed for John Paul, now almost 11, who was plagued by diarrhea and nasty side effects from steroids he had to …
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