Arizona Trail hiker spotlights fibromyalgia
Tucsonan due to complete last leg of 800-mile walk
Published: 05.07.2009
When she set out to hike the 800-mile Arizona Trail last spring, Sirena Dufault worried that she might not finish.
The daunting trail stretches from Utah to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tucsonan Dufault's concern stemmed from her decade-long battle with fibromyalgia, a little-understood chronic pain disorder.
"I was a little hesitant to publicize it because I didn't know how far I could go," Dufault said this week. "Now I can comfortably do a 15-mile day with a big pack, no problem."
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