Reye's Syndrome Research Paper

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Many deeply persona, l unexpected events have occurred in my lifetime. It is hard for me to select the most unexpected and even harder to share my response to that unknown with others. I have opted to write about the death of my mother, my mother passed when I was just 14 years old. My mother died as a result of Reye’s syndrome, she was 32 years old. Reye’s syndrome rarely occurs in adults. It is so rare that my mother was the 6th documented case in medical history. My mother had a cold on February 13th and on February 14th, she was admitted to the hospital in a coma, she died 6 days later. I was left confronting the unknown.
My mother and father were divorced and my father lived hundreds of miles away, we didn’t see him often, maybe

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