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. A few of these special people tell their stories of inner strength and personal motivation. Their unselfish acts on behalf of other allow us to look beyond their disabilities and into their hearts.
Silver Linings 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 heartwarming 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 bestselling 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.
SHAENA ENGLE (Los Angeles, CA) has travelled extensively, speaking and teaching self-help courses to chronically ill patients throughout Europe and Australia. She suffers from systemic lupus.
250 pp (Photos Throughout) ISBN 1-57392-171-8 Cloth