Life Disrupted Getting Real about Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties

Name: Life Disrupted Getting Real about Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties
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ISBN: 9780802716491

ISBN-10: 0802716490

ISBN-13: 9780802716491

Edition: 2008

Authors: Laurie Edwards

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An inspiring guide to staying in control of your health care, your life, and your dreams despite having chronic illness, by a popular journalist and award-winning blogger. Twenty-seven-year-old Laurie Edwards is one of 125 million Americans who have a chronic illness, in her case a rare genetic respiratory disease. Because of medical advances in the treatment of serious childhood diseases, 600,000 chronically ill teens enter adulthood every year who decades ago would not have survived—they and people diagnosed in adulthood face the same challenges of college, career, and starting a family as others in their twenties and thirties, but with the added circumstance of having chronic illness.…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Walker & Company
Publication date: 6/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Laurie Edwards is a health journalist whose essays and articles have been published in the "Boston Globe" and on several online sites, including ChronicBabe.com. Her blog, www.achronicdose.com, was named one of the top ten sites for chronic pain by the Health Central Network. Edwards teaches writing at Northeastern University and lives with her husband in Boston, Massachusetts. This is her first book.