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Dec. 20, 2014 Volume 6, Issue 37
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SHOPPING WITH COPS About 140 local kids woke up early Saturday morning, not to watch cartoons but, to participate in the seventh annual Shop With A Cop event, organized by the Conyers Police Department. SWAC gives each child an opportunity to go on a shopping spree through the Conyers Wal-Mart, accompanied by an officer from the Conyers Police Department, Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia State Patrol. Each child was given $100 to use at their disposal. Watch the video at rockdalenews.com
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The Patriots are on a four-game winning streak
RCSO Deputy Deanna Burke looks on while Brianna, 4, picks out a stuffed animal. Martin Rand III/The News
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The fairest of them all Kathleen Eidson, proud marine.
Page 10 RMC expands Social Circle, South Rockdale
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Kylee vs. Kikuchi
Conyers family seeks community help to battle rare disease By Michelle Kim
mkim@rockdalenews.com
When Conyers Middle School sixth-grader Kylee Davis began breaking out in painful lesions in August, it threw his mother, Felicia Davis, for a loop. Kylee had experienced a less intense version of the same painful symptoms back in 2008 when he was a second grader at Barksdale Elementary. Then, the disease had thankfully and just as mysteriously faded. But now, it came back “with a vengeance,” said Felicia.
“He had the lesions on his head, ulcers in his mouth, also his ears and nose,” she said. He also had crippling body pain, trouble breathing and a fever that lasted for weeks. Even now, Kylee stays at his aunt’s house because he has difficulty walking up stairs at his home. After weeks of hospitalization, a revolving door of doctors from Children’s, Emory, Grady and other facilities and a battery of tests and biopsies, Kylee was finally diagnosed with Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease.
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Felicia and Kylee Davis support each other through their battles with Kikuchi disease.
Darrell EveridgeI/The News