Stricken with rare disease, film documents woman’s climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro
Originally aired: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Category: Reports
It was July 1999 when a doctor told Rebecca Dufek she had a disease known as Neurofibromatosis Type 2, also called NF2. Her brain and spinal cord were covered with masses of tiny tumors that were "too numerous to count." 97.3 KIRO-FM's Brandi Kruse reports.