Silver Linings
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This book contains seventeen inspiring and touching personal accounts of people who live daily with various chronic illnesses and/or physical conditions yet have learned to endure, move on with their lives, and have gone out of their way to help, employ, and motivate others. Contributors to this heart-warming volume include Roxanne Black, a lupus sufferer, who started the world-wide Friend's Health Connection support network and received the Daily Point of Light Award from George Bush; Michael Crisler, a 7-year-old who, despite suffering from a severe facial deformity, raised $40,000 for the…mehr

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This book contains seventeen inspiring and touching personal accounts of people who live daily with various chronic illnesses and/or physical conditions yet have learned to endure, move on with their lives, and have gone out of their way to help, employ, and motivate others. Contributors to this heart-warming volume include Roxanne Black, a lupus sufferer, who started the world-wide Friend's Health Connection support network and received the Daily Point of Light Award from George Bush; Michael Crisler, a 7-year-old who, despite suffering from a severe facial deformity, raised $40,000 for the Oklahoma City bombing victims; and Donna Williams, the best-selling author of "Nobody Nowhere", a book about her life with autism. Other contributors include Paige Barton (trisomy 18), Marcia Boehm (osteogenesis imperfecta), Laura Evans, (breast cancer), Daniella Fortuna (hemangioma), Evelyn Glennie, (deafness), Jean Griswald (multiple sclerosis), Larry Patton (cerebral palsy), Ron Price (cerebral palsy), Lisa and Michael Sherman (diabetes and blindness), Patrick Walsh (cerebral palsy), and others.
Chronic illnesses and physical disabilities are a fact of life for many people today, but some have chosen to live life to its fullest in spite of the barriers in their path. SILVER LININGS contains 17 personal accounts of people who live daily with various chronic illnesses and/or physical conditions yet have learned to endure and have gone out of their way to help and to motivate others. Photos.
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Shaena Engle (Los Angeles, CA) has traveled extensively, speaking and teaching self-help courses to chronically ill patients throughout Europe and Australia. She suffers from systemic lupus.