Will
In 2017, after living in England for 11 years, our family moved back to the United States. We were struggling with adapting to the food here and missing the much healthier European lifestyle. Seeing nutritional consultations advertised at a Wellness Center near our home in Tennessee, I decided to find out if there was anything […]
Brooklyn
I kissed my daughter goodbye thinking I might never see her alive again. Hour after hour was spent unconsciously preparing and suppressing the possibility that we’d have to plan a funeral for our baby. We were living in a nightmare. Until June 4th when the nightmare officially began, our baby Brooklyn was a happy, active […]
Colton
He’s a special kid. I know he’s my kid, but he’s pretty special, nonetheless. He loves baseball and basketball and he go, go, goes from the minute he wakes up until we make him slow down – be it coming inside, eating dinner, or going to bed. He has a sweet spirit and the kind […]
Mary Ann
Food safety is very personal topic for me and for my family. Just before Labor Day 2006, my fit and active 80-year-old mom, Mary Ann, bought a bag of pre-washed, ready-to-serve spinach that she assumed was safe to eat, if not beneficial to her health. Unfortunately, the spinach was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 — […]
Serena
In 1993, after living for years in the Portland area, I moved with my husband, John, to Lincoln City, Oregon. We were blessed to find 40 acres in the coastal mountains, fifteen miles from town. John worked for United Telephone, and I worked at a local restaurant. It was the perfect place for our three […]
Angela
Kidney failure, constant pain and nausea, extreme weakness, and weeks laid up in a hospital bed. Not the kind of life you’d normally describe for a typical, active 15-year-old girl looking forward to celebrating her Sweet 16th birthday, is it? But that’s exactly the kind of harrowing, hellish ordeal I went through back in high […]
Trevor
Maybe it’s the 24-hour flu. This is what Erin Simmons initially thought when her 8-year-old son Trevor’s school called her late in the morning on Jan. 25, 2017. “He doesn’t look good,” the nurse said. Simmons cut out of a conference call early to pick him up. It was a Wednesday. And it was flu […]
Charles
The evening of June 3rd, 2016, was like any other Friday – after work we headed home and ordered out. My husband Charles, who was 49 at the time, called a favorite pizza place in our hometown of National Park, NJ, for a half sausage Sicilian pizza for pick up. When he came home he […]
Kiley
All the people in my life expressed their joy that I was recovering, which made it harder to let them know that I was still struggling.
Patrick
“When I got home, it was clear that Dianne was, in fact, very sick.”
Dani
“I thought the day would come when I would just turn a corner and then, somehow, I’d have my life back. Unfortunately, my body didn’t always agree with my mind.”
Hunter
“What 20-year-old do you know with a full hip replacement?”