Reflections: Illness 6 Articles

by Lauren Beyenhof

Living With CF Because I was diagnosed at birth, I'm unable to give an account of what it was like to hear the diagnosis for the first time. I've heard my parents' version of what that was like. I was born on the fring...read more

by C M Hegberg

French voyageurs in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) between the United States and Canada canoed along their watery highways to the trading posts. Usually, two in a boat, those nomads empowered their birch...read more

by Sybil Cole

Most of my memories are lost to me, especially the ones that accounted for most of my childhood. The only memories that I do remember are the ones I would rather forget, they are the memories that have shaped my life and t...read more

by Hannah Curtis

This is an area in which I have had plenty of first hand experience. These reflections are a combination from personal illness for the first fifteen years of my life, and illness suffered by my parents in the last six year...read more

by David Turdo

My Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA-stroke), occurred on 5/05/2007, and I was in intensive care for nearly (2) weeks. Thereafter, the Docs said that I had a CVA-stroke, a small-stroke that limited both my speech and handwr...read more

by Alex Dones

Hello to everyone, I'd like to take a moment to describe to everyone how disease can shape our lives whether it is our sickness or not and also how we can help. Growing up I was always extremely close to my grandfather,...read more