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Madison with her boyfriend, Jared Baker, whom she described as her biggest source of support. | PHOTO COURTESY OF MADISON NANTZ
exhausting.
“ I wanted to show up as my best self every day, but I was finding it impossible to realistically do that with these constant, then-unexplained issues I’ ve been up against,” she said.
Nantz began searching for answers through blood work at CommonSpirit-Saint Joseph Hospital-London in May. Those initial tests showed elevated ferritin and red blood cell counts. Her red blood cells were also larger than normal and carried a higher amount of hemoglobin.
At the time, however, no one expressed significant concern, so Nantz did not think much of
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