by US Thalidomide Survivors | Jul 2, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story
In the Washington Post today, Perri Klass, a professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, reviews the new book “Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims” by Jennifer Vanderbes, to be released by Random...
by US Thalidomide Survivors | Mar 26, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story
Jennifer Vanderbes, author of “WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims” Award-winning author Jennifer Vanderbes discovered the existence of a growing community of US survivors who had begun to find each other, and...
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 GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 24, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES Less than a year after that lonely horrid hospital stay we moved to Massachusettes (from Va.) 1st time we lived off an Army base. We had a super cool kid-friendly house cuz the entire daylight basement was turned into a playhouse for me...
by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 17, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES I was born in Germany to white American parents stationed in Frankfurt. My mother had always been worried she’d get pregnant but never really wanted children. My sister was born 8 years my senior. She was born unable to move her...
by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
An autoBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES Part One of how Thalidomide affected my life…. Do you remember that Steve Martin movie where his character starts out by saying “I was born a poor black child.” ? He said that cuz everyone he looked at, his whole...
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