After a young girl had
endured several years of
adversity from ulcerative
colitis, her life was
forever changed by an
innovative surgeon at
Scott & White. Twentyfive years later, Bethany
Vetters is married and
raising two children, and
along with her parents,
she is an advocate for
the new Baylor Scott &
White Medical Center in
Marble Falls, opening
in 2015.
At
an age when most girls are
fretting about boys and
blemishes, teenager Bethany
Burnam (now Vetters) worried about
whether she would be able to discreetly
manage the painful, embarrassing,
and often uncontrollable symptoms
of a disease that plagued her digestive
system. While other kids her age had
to cope with the occasional bump
or bruise, she suffered from the side
effects of ulcerative colitis, persistent
and severe abdominal cramping and
diarrhea caused by bleeding ulcerations
along the lining of her large intestine