by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Jun 28, 2025 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
Summer of 1969 and the surgery was done. My first on my left side. The hand surgeon met me near a year prior “one” time. His office with no windows and I knew I had something to offer him. He examined my hand formulating options with the biggest...
by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Apr 20, 2025 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
As a child, being aware of my physical difference, it seems I’ve always tried to maintain balance and poise. The older I get, the more difficult it is to be balanced, I’ve gained weight, I’m not as flexible, which only adds to my challenges....
by Julie Haas | Apr 20, 2025 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
Each one of you out there who has friended my FB social media world has known me from a miniscule morsel of my life up to those who now have a mammoth mouthful of who I have been and who I am becoming, for better or worse ;-), depending on who you are and how you have...
by Laura Kendall | Nov 12, 2024 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
CHAPTER 1 Who in the hell do you think you are, Laura? Doesn’t everyone have a different idea or opinion of who we are? We are judged by family, friends, acquaintances, and strangers differently, aren’t we? Even those who know us best have their own ideas of who we...
by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Jul 13, 2023 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story, WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in American and Its Hidden Victims
This book for me has been 61 years in the making. I am a character in the book — honestly, I really am. And so are a lot of my friends from U.S. Thalidomide Survivors, a nonprofit formed only a few years ago in 2018. This book is us. This book literally helped us find...
by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
The fact that the world still thinks there were no — or very few — thalidomide survivors born in the US is still a source of amazement for me. We have done an exceptional job, I feel, of documenting our story in this website, and traffic has increased each...
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