by Burt Pusch, PhD | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
Common Challenges Faced by USA Thalidomide Survivors Imagine; you live in a body that resembles few others. Instead of 10 fingers, you have three. Instead of two legs, you have one and a half. Your congenital uniqueness doesn’t stop there. Your anatomy, arms, legs,...
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 US Thalidomide Survivors | Jul 20, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story, WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in American and Its Hidden Victims
Learn more about the American thalidomide survivors’ quest for justice more than 60 years after their mothers unwittingly took samples of the unapproved drug while pregnant in the July 25 2023 issue of People...
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