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No Stomach For Food - Or Cancer

On March - 8 - 2009

By David Wahlberg
Wisconsin State Journal
March 2009

Karen and Sons

She never gets hungry. Regular meals make her sick. She can’t eat and drink at the same time.

Karen Chelcun Schreiber has no stomach.

It’s not that her stomach is mostly bypassed like after weight-loss surgery. She has no stomach at all. She had the bean-shaped organ removed last summer.

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