Intermountain Health team helps young woman live beyond her diagnosis

For most people, food is fuel. But for ShayLee Hunter, survival comes another way.

"At 6 months old, I had my first surgery and had a third of my large intestine removed," she said. "By the time I was 2, I got my first feeding tube."

Hunter was born with a rare digestive disorder called chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, a condition where the nerves and muscles of the gut don't work properly. Food and fluid can't move through her body as they should.