Simon the smiling action man

Published: 7:23PM Thursday July 23, 2009 Source: Close Up

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Eight year old Simon Lasso suffers from one of those couple-in-a-million type of medical conditions - his skin's wafer thin and constantly blisters to the point where he has to be bandaged every day from head to toe. 

When Close Up first heard of him, they immediately pictured him as the poor little lad having to sit out all the lunchtime rough and tumble at school.

But how wrong they were, as Michael Holland discovers.

To find out a bit more about Simon's condition Epidermolysis Bullosa, known as EB go to www.debra.org.nz

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