Every day, Brooklyn Mills hopes she’ll wake up from a horrible nightmare. “I don’t think there is ever a day when I don’t feel like crap,” Mills, 22, told a news conference at Queen’s Park Wednesday. The Oakville woman suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a disease affecting the body’s connective tissue. She and Erika Crawford, 20, came to Queen’s Park to plead with Health Minister Eric Hoskins to fund their out-of-country treatment. They’ve been told OHIP won’t pay for their surgeries because there are doctors who can treat EDS in this country. These two brave young women say that’s just not true. They’ve been...
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