by Laura Kendall | Jan 30, 2024 | Blog, Convention
Back row: Paul and LorXena Koneczny, Laura Kendall. Front row: Gwen Riechmann and the star of our show, Aragon, on his first big service dog trip. He not only looked mahvelous – he did great! We were missing an important member of our team, Lori Kay. She couldn’t be...
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...
by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Nov 27, 2021 | Blog
It has been a week in the thalidomide world. November 27 marked the 60th anniversary of the market withdrawal of Contergan (the German trademark name for thalidomide). This anniversary was commemorated by the German Association of People affected by Thalidomide...
by Jan Garrett | Nov 22, 2021 | Blog
My name is Jan Taylor Garrett, and I serve as an at-large member of the U.S. Thalidomide Survivors Board of Directors. I love my husband Dan, kitties, all things purple, and my friends and family. I was born in February of 1962 in Oklahoma City, OK. My disability is...
by jcalora@gmail.com | Nov 14, 2021 | Blog
Introduction You can call me “JoJo.” My name is Jose Martynov G. Calora. I was born in 1962 in Ithaca, New York, with congenital deformities in my upper extremities. I have short arms, no elbows, and three fingers on each hand. The technical term is...
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