Book Review: Climbing Higher By: Montel Williams

Book Review: Climbing Higher By: Montel Williams

By: Montel Williams with Lawrence Grobel "At this point, one of the doctors mentioned something about this weird disease, MS, but then said that I couldn't have MS because I was in much too good a shape. I was ripped: I weighed 190 pounds; I had a twenty-eight-inch waist, with eighteen-inch

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Book Review: Sharon Osbourne Extreme: The Autobiography

Sharon Osbourne is a larger than life character whose family achieved near global recognition through the reality show 'The Osbournes'. Sharon is best known to some people as a judge on TV shows such as, America's Got Talent, X factor, and as the wife of ex-Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne, but s

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Book Review: The Intern Blues

Since we are all living with a chronic illness, doctors are a necessary part of our lives. Some of the doctors are nice, some are snotty and some are just plain awful I'll admit, but have you ever wondered exactly why they are the way they are?... or how they even got to the place where they have yo

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Book Review: “Night”

Author: Elie Wiesel I was watching "The Oprah Winfrey Show" a few weeks ago when Oprah made an announcement that caught my attention: her latest book club selection was a new translation of "Night". I don't belong to the book club, but I do believe the book is one of the 10 most important avail

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Book Review: No Longer Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf

by Dene Danielle Hopkins I had the pleasure of reading this book about Dene and her experiences dealing with Lupus, since 1992. The book is quite short (59 pages) and was a quick read, so I was able to finish the book in one sitting. It was comforting to read about someone else's dealings with thi

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Book Review: Lucky Man: A Memoir

By: Michael J. Fox "If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal– with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever–in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was

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Book Review: A Will to Win- a remarkable story of courage and determination

By: Alice Peterson I have chosen to write about this book because as a  young woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis it was a lifeline to know that other younger  people had the disease too. The beauty of the book for me is that it is about the person with the R.A, rather than a book about possib

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Book Review: Dawg Tired, the Brain Fog Chronicles

As anyone with any chronic illness knows, getting professionals, friends or family to believe you, can be incredibly hard. We struggle daily against the "But you don't look sick?" label we are given. Dawg Tired, the Brain Fog Chronicles documents such a journey. We follow Gayla as she goes from

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