An Alabama high school student is spending the fall semester of his senior year bicycling across the US.Glyn Glover, 19, suffers from ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Following an RV driven by his mother, he's promoting awareness about the disease on his cross-country bike trip.
Glover, a top-ranked high school football player, was diagnosed with the condition in 2009. He keeps it in check by staying on a strict diet that eliminates as much sugar, fat and processed foods as possible.
But medications he'd been taking to fight some side-effects of the disease caused a severe seizure ...
Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/12/14/4958739.html
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