Author: anna-local

At the age of seventeen Chicagoan Brian Swift’s neck was broken while playing football with his friends on the sunny, chilly day after Christmas.  As he found the courage and […]

Hello, my name is Cecilia! I am the youngest of five children born to Stanley and Veronica Zwanzig. My mother married my father at the age of twenty-five, which in […]

On September 10, 2012 James Sparhawk had a complete freak accident. He was too close to the edge on a roof of a 2 story house porch he was working […]

Hey everyone my name is Carina Ortiz. Since I was born my life has been full of struggles, but I’ve managed to fight them successfully. I can say that I […]

Betty Mekdeci is the Executive Director at Birth Defect Research for Children. Her website is http://www.birthdefects.org/about-us/. On her website, Betty tells everyone how she feels that her sons birth defects […]

Hi, I’m Lauren. I am a 36 year old Mother of 3. I have all girls and their ages are 15,14, and 5 years old. My youngest Wren was born […]

Hey! I’m Nicole Graves ! So, here is my story . I had a host of medical problems and complications over most of my life. Nothing any physician seemed inclined […]

SB in a Nutshell Life in a nut shell, I have always been one of those people who rarely speak of one’s own life and struggles on social media or […]

Hi my name is Krista. I have severe depression and anxiety and boarderline personality disorder and dyslexia and learning disabilities. It stops me from doing a lot of things I […]