An Alberta teenager is sharing what the past eight years of her life has been like living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, ahead of a fundraiser in Edmonton.

When she was five years old, Kylie George was at a gymnastics birthday party when she fell and hurt her ankle. Her parents didn’t think much of it, until it started to swell.

They did what any parent would and took her to the doctor.

“They thought that it was a small fracture, we got the cast,” Lisa George, Kylie’s mother, said. “A few weeks later, her knee started to really swell up and really stiffen up.”

Lisa said that Kylie would wake up in the middle of the night crying in pain, unable to walk.

When things weren’t getting better, they saw a number of doctors and got a multitude of tests. One doctor even suggested that Kyl

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