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Her pain is like a blowtorch : But Milford woman with rare disease redeeming cans, bottles in struggle for independence
Pam McLoughlin
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Amanda Pitre, who suffers from an auto-immune disease, poses at her home in Milford, Conn., on Thursday Jan. 21, 2021. Pitre, who teaches at a school for special needs children, is collecting redeemable cans and bottles to raise money to put toward her own home with handicap accessibility and support the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
MILFORD Amanda Pitre, 30, lives with her parents and can only work part time because she has an autoimmune disease that creates constant, burning pain as if a “blowtorch” was lit inside her.