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Dona Osterhout was only 48 years old when she noticed that she was having a hard time keeping up when she went hiking and biking with her family. "At first, I…

Retired ophthalmologist Merrill Oaks was enjoying an active life and spending time with his family when he started to experience symptoms of kidney failure at 77…

When Ricardo rides his stationary bike he leaves the memory of heart failure further and further behind. After he was diagnosed with amyloidosis, specialists at…

Just informing everyone that on September 1, 2017, I was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called Al Amyloidosis. I call it "Amy" for short. May this year I had…

I live in Los Angeles in California but, as a performer, have had the good fortune to travel and work internationally for the past 50 or so years. My amyloidosis…

I am grateful to tell the story of my journey in and through the world of hematology and blood dyscrasisas. As I read the plight of so many of my comrades with…

This book sweeps the reader across nine years and four continents, in the fateful odyssey of an internationally acclaimed actor who was suddenly stricken with a…

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This is a non-fiction book that tells how I beat an incurable, terminal disease known as amyloidosis. Amyloidosis turned my heart, literally and figuratively, into…

Presented in diary format, 'Beating Back AL Amyloidosis' takes the reader through the changes in Rachelle's health as Light Chain Amyloidosis gradually manifested…