"I remember the words the daughter told the mother when she was lying in the emergency room: 'Don't ever leave me, '" the doctor says.

CNN: December 24, 2012 -- Updated 0455 GMT (1255 HKT)

At 13 I remember being taken to a terrifying woman who made me repeat my symptoms again and again until I used the correct anatomical words (pretty embarrassing considering where the rash started...).

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