Ashley's Health Struggles [Part 2]

My daughter Ashley developed Crohn's at 14 as an actress. She's an amazing actress and she has done a lot of acting since she was very little. About 4 years of age is when she started. She had moved out to la, was doing work out there, and because she got sick so often, she actually lost her SAG insurance. So we're dual citizens. Canadian, American. She moved back up to Toronto to do some work up there in acting. Got rushed to the hospital because her lungs started filling up with blood. She was in ICU for about three and a half weeks, and they diagnosed her with idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, which is just a long way of saying it's another autoimmune disorder. Idiopathic means they don't know what causes it, they don't know anything about it. So again, they told us there's no cure for this. We don't know what causes it. She's going to have to manage this for the rest of her life. The best advice they could give us is for her to live close to a hospital in case her lungs started filling up with blood, because that could happen very fast.