Category
illness
How I plan to die
Jewish Journal
October 29, 2014
One Sunday last November, 86-year-old Joy Johnson laced her running shoes and ran the New York marathon for the 25th year in a row.
Paws of Love: Fur healing’s sake
Jewish Journal
August 29, 2012
Ari Gould, 6, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia three years ago. In addition to the physical pain he has endured, the disease and the stressful medical procedures that followed have also left him socially isolated.
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome: A hunger that cannot be fed
Jewish Journal
July 18, 2012
When Gudrun and Daniel Brock opened their front door, Aaron, the couple’s 6-year-old son, ran to hug his teacher from Wilshire Boulevard Temple, whom he had not seen in more than a year. Only she heard him whisper: “I missed you so much.”
Children’s art exhibit gives expression to illness
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
May 16, 2012
Artwork created by children with serious illnesses will be auctioned off, along with works by professional artists and celebrities, at Chai Lifeline’s “Through the Eyes of our Children” on May 21.
Baby’s parents looking for hope, help and a miracle
Jewish Journal
August 9, 2011
Baby Leah tenses and contorts in her crib at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. A visit to her in the room requires suiting up in a gown, gloves and mask to ensure she doesn’t become sick in her fragile state. Zev and Frani Esquenazi’s little girl, who is named for Princess Leia from the “Star Wars” films, has received multiple spinal taps, MRIs and EEGs, and is breathing through her trachea. Her movements are erratic.
They never run out of patients
David Suissa
October 23, 2008
A young boy with a serious illness was a big football fan. So Grossman, Usdan and the staff made some calls and found someone to donate two Super Bowl tickets, and someone else to sponsor the trip. When the boy found out about the trip, his parents said it was \”the first time he smiled since getting his diagnosis.\”
Films: Director examines healing from surgery, grief
Robert David Jaffee
March 8, 2008
Seated at his office in Beverly Hills, Ben Mittleman, 57, doesn\’t have a trace of gray in his sandy-brown hair. He says his mother used to kid him that he must have had a \”facelift or something,\” but despite the fact that this veteran TV actor turned director-producer looks 10 years younger than his age, he underwent heart surgery in 2001. That experience is the subject of \”Dying to Live,\” along with his response to the cancers that later took the lives of both his mother and his wife, Valerie. The film premieres Thursday, March 13, at Laemmle\’s Music Hall, where it will screen for two weeks.
Family Feud — with my family, it’s no game
Teresa Strasser
March 22, 2007
I would take my mom against Clint Eastwood in any movie. Sure, he usually plays a grizzled, gunslinger with cat-like reflexes and something to prove, but if you cross my mother, you will find yourself, like the title of Clint\’s greatest Western, \”Unforgiven.\”
On completing treatment …
Rabbi Anne Brener
January 11, 2007
I have finished my eight rounds of chemotherapy. I feel like someone coming to the end of a year of mourning, about to surrender the status of \”mourner\” and return to face the world without a label to describe my continuing internal struggle.
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