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Narcolepsy in a FIVE year old


Posted by Virginia on February 29, 2000 at 18:55:25:

My son has narcolepsy (like me- his mother) and I wondered if anybody else knew of a young child having it- or anybody with narcolepsy having a kid with it. My son is third generation medically documentable.

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