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 | Feb 5, 2025 | News Coverage
The Doctor Who Said No To Thalidomide In 2024, Lost Women of Science embarked upon a podcast, a 5 part series that looks into — with depth and accuracy — the Thalidomide tragedy in the USA, and Dr. Frances Kelsey. Many members of USA Thalidomide Survivors...
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 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...
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