[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15583]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       SARAH HUGHES' MIRACLE CURE

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I want the American people to know why I 
proudly voted for the 21st Century Cures Act last night--six words: 
Sarah Hughes and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
  Sarah found out she had this autoimmune disorder when she was 11 
months old. For over 20 years, she fought intense pain, fevers of 107 
degrees, and getting fed through a tube for over a decade.
  Her mom, Fiona, was told by her doctors that she would watch her 
daughter die before she turned 20 years old. Sarah proved those doctors 
wrong by getting stem cell therapy from Celltex Therapeutics from my 
own town of Sugar Land, Texas.
  Within 2 hours of her first infusion, Sarah felt a change. Here she 
is today. Her mom, Fiona, summed up Sarah's amazing miracle. She said: 
``She's her, and I'm me. We're enjoying life together, the way it 
should be.''

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