5 Obstacles People with Rare Diseases Face; Readers Share Their Stories

Did you know that 1 in 10 Americans has a rare disease? In the U.S., a rare diseases is defined

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Resilience: My Family’s Autoimmune/Cancer/Bipolar Journey as Remembered Through Four Pacquiao Fights (from The Huffington Post)

Over the weekend, I had my second Huffington Post article published.  You can read it here.  I’m very excited about this

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Victim Blaming Happens to Sick People Too

I recently saw an article about the twenty dumbest things said on a popular sports show.  I was discussing this with

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Why Are 30th and 40th Birthday Cards So Depressing?

Today is an anniversary date for me. Six years ago, at the age of 24, I was diagnosed with the

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Chronic Illness: On the Outside Looking In

Sometimes chronic illness leaves patients on the outside looking in. When I was younger, I sometimes had to leave social

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Just Between You And Me

I wasn’t feeling well today. (This after a very productive Monday and a fabulous Sunday, which I’ll tell you more

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Women’s Health: Join the More Than Boobs Initiative This September

      UPDATE:  I will be speaking on HuffPost Live next Tuesday (09/30) at 12:45  pm EST discussing the

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Illness: Self-Advocacy in Social Settings; What We Wish You Understood

Right now, my right foot is swollen. It’s slowly getting better. I have to admit that yesterday afternoon I feared

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