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What started as one mom’s worst nightmare evolved into a story of desperation, hope and a miraculous recovery. When Alex Dixon was 10, the gifted student who loved music and art came down with pneumonia. The pneumonia caused a malfunction in her central nervous system that resulted in a pain disorder and spasms that caused numerous dislocations and left her…