Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation in the lining of the colon and rectum. The teacher, from Dyer, Ind., was first diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 21. Doctors thought her best option was to have her colon (large intestine) surgically removed -a process that requires several major operations. Her medications were no longer keeping the disease under control. Perkovich had been sidelined by inflammatory bowel disease. But just a few years ago, the thought of accomplishing this fitness feat -which requires participants to do 40 sit-ups in a minute, 20 push-ups without stopping, and run a mile -was hard to imagine. Each spring, Abbie Perkovich completes the Presidential Youth Fitness Challenge with her fifth-grade students.
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