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...
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, US Thalidomide Story
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...
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