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This question came up on the DC list and I'm wondering if people have thoughts about it.  A guy in Kid Rock's band, Joe Calleja, died in 2000.  A story by the Associated Press at the time said "Calleja, known as Joe C., was 26 when he died in November. His short stature (3' 9") was the result of a lifelong illness, celiac disease, a digestive disorder that required him to take more than 60 pills a day."

That line about "60 pills a day" part gets repeated a lot in subsequent postings on the Internet.  It's bolstered by an interview Joe C. gave to MTV where he described a typical day by saying "I'm stickin' to my diet and takin' my medicine on time. You know, it's ridiculous. I take 60 pills [a day]. Right off the bat, when I wake up, [I take] two pills. An hour later, 10 pills. Three hours later, I've got the tube [in my stomach], and I shoot something through there three hours later. Two hours later, I take two more, and then an hour later, 10, then shoot the tube three hours later [again]."

So the questions are: 

-Is this just a story from back before people understood CD?  

-He seems to believe (and the AP reporter did too) that he was taking pills to fight CD.  What might be behind that?

Thanks for whatever you know.

Richard Paul

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