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Thursday, February 9, 2012 • WALWORTH COUNTY, WI

After 10 years without answers, medical mystery solved for Elkhorn man

By Community Video ( Contact )   March 31, 2010 - 2:57 p.m.
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ELKHORN -- After 10 years of struggling to catch his breath following an accident that nearly killed him, Pat Leahy of Elkhorn has a new lease on life.

Leahy's medical mystery, recently profiled on Fox 6 TV (above), began a decade ago when he nearly drown in a boating accident. He survived, but could no longer catch his breath, making it impossible to do simple things like run and play with his children.

Over the years, doctors were unable to diagnose the cause or come up with a treatment, until a specialist at Aurora St. Lukes discovered Leahy's diaphragm had been forced out of place, collapsing his lung.

After surgery to stitch the diaphragm back into place, Leahy was soon running again.

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SwissChick
Apr 1, 2010 at 12:04 p.m.
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beeferer - You got that right!

beeferer
Apr 1, 2010 at 11:26 a.m.
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House would have figured it out in one episode. I'm just saying...

freeradical
Apr 1, 2010 at 10:22 a.m.
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That's what I thought, after concluding this actually isn't an april fool's joke..

frusion
Apr 1, 2010 at 8:54 a.m.
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I'm not a doctor, but you would think an MRI would have indicated this problem long before 10 years had passed.

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