“Do what you can, when you can.” These seven words have carried him through hardships and triumphs. In 2005-2006, they...
Month: December 2017 Articles
Julian Phillips
Battling chronic pain for over 30 years. In his early 20s, Julian was athletic and active. He enjoyed weekly water...
Ellen Smith
Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a progressive degenerative connective tissue disorder characterized by...
Marsha Tyszler
Marsha Tyszler’s journey with chronic pain began in 2003, when she fell while trying to jump a fence in a relay race....
Kelly Rouba
Diagnosed at the age of two, Kelly Rouba has lived for twenty-eight years with juvenile arthritis (JA), an autoimmune...
Karin Boyce
Karin Boyce has dealt with many health issues in her forty-four years. At thirteen, she developed sciatica pain...
Edania Maldonado
At eighteen, Edania Maldonado is young, compassionate and full of life. A freshman at LaSalle University, she dreams...
Denise Coleman
Denise Coleman’s back pain began when she was just twelve. At first, it was mainly just a nuisance. By the time she...
Nicole Spink
Nicole Spink has been living with a chronic neurological syndrome, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, since she was ten....
Gina Libby
At 42, Gina Libby has lived with chronic pain for more than 20 years. Yet it hasn’t stopped her from making an impact;...
Julie Dye
Last year, fifty-year-old Julie Dye never imagined she would be a cancer patient, and more important, a cancer...
Sandy Do
Like so many people who live with chronic pain, 27-year-old Sandy Do of San Francisco inhabits a complicated situation...