If you think you're one of the rare few who are suffering from rosacea, you're not alone. ...more

January 21, 2009

Everyone around her groans as Diana Manning pats her flat belly and announces she wants to lose another 5 pounds. ...more

January 14, 2009

Everyone around her groans as Diana Manning pats her flat belly and announces she wants to lose another five pounds. ...more

January 13, 2009

Artist Catherine Lawlar is elbow deep in magnets - small pieces of iron nestled among tiny silver or gold pieces or brightly colored beads. ...more

August 19, 2008

Norma McCulliss of Palm Harbor urges support for the Lupus Foundation of America. ...more

January 29, 2008

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

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