FOR 16-year-old Alaithea Whitmore, securing seven distinctions and a credit in her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations was akin to seeing a rainbow following a bleak year marred by ill health and financial woes.
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The Immaculate Conception High School student said there were many times throughout the school year when achieving academic success seemed like a pipe dream. This was due mostly to a debilitating health condition that causes her to experience pain all over her body, as well as the fact that her mother was not always in a position to provide for her financially.
Whitmore, whose mother peddles in May Pen daily to send her to school, said she was officially diagnosed with scoliosis about two years ago. This diagnosis came about three years after others around her started speculating that there was more behind the pain and fatigue she had been experiencing.
"My grade seven mathematics teacher, she used her stick and she would say, 'Stand up', and when I did, she would say that I'm lean. The pain was there, but I tried to ignore stuff, but then it got worse and so I had to go to the doctor and that's when I got the official diagnosis." read more:
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