Find out if you have fibromyalgia. ...more

May 15, 2009

Kenneth Kuchar-Haas, tall and slim, munched on an organically grown apple one recent morning in his new office. ...more

November 19, 2007

SEBRING — Sandy Lankford wakes up everyday not knowing what's next. "Sometimes you don't know how your day is going to go," said Sandy, who suffers from fibromyalgia, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. "This morning I felt fine, but now I'm in pain. It happens all the time. It's called a flare." Lankford, a former teacher at Bowling Green Elementary School, was forced out of work when she suffered a stroke a few years ago. ...more

October 22, 2007

By the time she hit 40, Cindi Barsa was 30 pounds overweight, perpetually exhausted and aching all the time. Two minutes on a treadmill was all she could manage, and keeping up with her children was impossible. ...more

October 13, 2007

My life was going along great. I had a full-time career teaching that I loved, plus two part-time ones that involved teaching music and leading worship at church. My kids were well and my husband was doing what he loved. We were all extremely busy and fulfilled. But, I began to feel sick — fatigue and pain that cannot be described. I had felt it a few times in the past when for months I could not get out of bed without help. No doctor could ever figure it out. Starting in eighth grade, I'd be given round after round of antibiotics and after being deathly ill for weeks, would slowly recover. It would always take a long, long time to feel my energetic, enthusiastic self again but I always would. Then, for years I could go on as if nothing had ever happened to me. This time, I reacted the same way by pushing myself more and more, hoping I could just "will" myself out of it. But, the last time it didn't work and after feeling "sick" for a year, I finally had a stroke. ...more

October 2, 2007

WHO: Sandra Simmons AWARD: Named the 'Queen of Ice Cream.' As Queen Mum of the Cheery Red Hatters in Hudson, Simmons treated members and friends to an Edy's Slow Churned party. ...more

October 1, 2007