Chronic Pain

Finding a doctor who can diagnose your seemingly undiagnosable condition isn't like dating. It's worse.

Even lupus couldn't stop Danae Lee from pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure.

Folks writer Sarah Wilson talks about the intense vulnerability and great kindnesses created by being chronically ill.

A vicious blow to the head may have been the catalyst that turned Harriet Tubman into an Abolitionist hero.

How Katherine Mansfield, one of New Zealand's most prolific storytellers, found strength to deal with her chronic pain through her fiction.

When chronic pain forced Stephanie de Montalk to live fourteen years lying down, she didn't get lazy: she wrote seven books, and got her PhD.

"Illness takes a lot from you," says poet Sarah Wilson. "Writing is how I take the power back."

The impressionist painter completed nearly 400 paintings after rheumatoid arthritis deformed his hands.