Outside reading

I decided to take a break reading lock and key because the book isnt very interesting. Instead I read an article from Cosmo girl December/January issue about a girl who saved her own life. This article was about a teen girl that was having severe back pains that caused her a lot of pain. She went to several doctors to try and find out what was causing the pain and they all said the same things like - you pulled a muscle, its from your period, and just basically blew her off, but she believed it was more complicated than that. She went on pain killers to dull the pain because it was so bad. After about four months of this horrible pain she decided to take matters into her own hands and try to figure out what was wrong with her. She went to a new doctor and made them take X-rays of her lower back where they hadn't taken X-rays before. When the X-ray results came back the doctors found a tumor that had grown on her spinal cord. The doctors were amazed she was still walking because of the location of the tumor. She had to have surgery to get it removed and is still recovering from it. If she hadn't made the doctors take the X-ray she could be paralized or even worse, dead.