*For details on how to participate in our campaign: Please click here. Facing The Facts- The Details Behind the Facebook Saga: In an effort to elevate awareness for scleroderma, I… Read more Will Facebook Do an About-Face? The Details Behind the Facebook Saga →
Last week, I posted an article with a photo of my bare face (no makeup). To the left of me is a photograph of a beautiful woman named Chanel. At… Read more Facebook Doesn’t Like My Face: To the Facebook Ad Team that Told Me My Face Would Receive “High Negative Feedback” →
Why There’s More Than Meets the Eye When you look at these two pictures, what immediately runs through your mind? I’m guessing words like beautiful, young, healthy, and vibrant… Read more You Won’t Believe the Story Behind These Two Faces →
The Huffington Post picked up my article which I first posted here on my blog. Any shares,tweets, comments, or FB likes are much appreciated and bring us one step closer to raising awareness for scleroderma. Many thanks! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-goodmanhelfand/why-being-an-adolescent-l_b_7795338.html
Allow me to paint a picture of what my life was like as an adolescent. I was weird-looking, awkward, and different from my peers in every way. Here’s proof: Exhibit… Read more To All the Adolescent Freaks, Geeks, and Losers, It Gets Better! →
How Scleroderma Strengthened My Will to Live “There, in that ICU bed, with a trach freshly punctured into my throat, I promised myself I would not live as if I… Read more Never Give Up! →
The start of July marks the end of Scleroderma Awareness Month. I know I promised my loyal readers a final installment of Scleroderma: The Mini-Series. I planned to explain… Read more I Wanna Go Where They Can Pronounce My Disease →
If you haven’t read Part 1, click here 1992-2006 In the fall of 1992, I headed to the University of Illinois for my freshman year of college. I roomed with… Read more Scleroderma: The Mini-Series Part 2 →
Comfortable In My Thick Skin 