LEADING HER FIGHT: Jill Meer of Newport...

LEADING HER FIGHT: Jill Meer of Newport Beach, who has acromegaly, a rare and life-threatening disease, is forming an Orange County support group. (E1). She believes most acromegalics, who suffer excessive growth because of it, feel alone with their disease. . . . “They need to gain strength from knowledge about it,” she says.” She’s also concerned about educating doctors. Too many of them, she says, don’t properly diagnose until “it’s way too long in the progression of the disease.”