No One Believed I Was Sick
August 7, 2018
I have been in pain for as long as I can remember, but the worst of it began when I was 10 years old ...
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I May Look Different – But I Don’t Let That Stop Me
July 16, 2018I’ve always known I was different, but growing up, I honestly didn’t think much about my condition. I was born with Jarcho-Levin Syndrome ...
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A Bullet Changed My Life, But Not My Dream
June 28, 2018I first learned of my father’s gun when he fired a warning shot one day to scare off a robber. I was curious, and about two weeks later, I ...
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A Diagnosis We Never Expected – What I Want Every New Parent to Know
June 21, 2018In many ways, my five-year-old daughter Grace is a typical kindergartener. She enjoys hearing chapter books like Little House on the ...
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Loving Someone in the Grip of Addiction
June 15, 2018One hundred people die from drug overdoses every day. In February of last year, one of those people was my younger brother, John ...
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This Is What ‘Invisible Illness’ Looks Like
May 18, 2018“But you don’t look sick.” I hear this sentence easily ten times a week. I’ve even heard people yell at me in public for parking in a ...
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‘I Spent Eight Long Years With Undiagnosed Migraine Disease’
May 14, 2018We only got to visit my grandparents and cousins in Pittsburgh once a year, and I was stuck in bed on the third floor—far away from the ...
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The One Thing That Changed the Way I Live With Diabetes
April 26, 2018I had been experiencing symptoms for months before I paid any attention – being a teenager, I had just brushed them off ...
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I Was Taking Care of Everyone but Me – and It Almost Cost Me My Life
March 13, 2018I’m most well known for the seven medals I earned competing in gymnastics at two different Olympics. What happened after that is a less ...
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‘Wait!’ How a Doctor’s Quick Thinking Saved My Baby’s Life
March 1, 2018We never saw it coming. At 25 weeks, my pregnancy had been healthy and easy, so my husband and I walked into the ultrasound appointment ...
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