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Modesto Disease & Illness

Bike Around the Buttes 2012

Bike around the Buttes was started in 1984 by a man named Leroy Erwin, a type 1 diabetic. The original ride was from Yuba City to the Redding/Red...
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Yuba Sutter Type 1 Diabetes Support Group

YSCDSG stands for the Yuba Sutter Children's Type 1 Diabetes Support Group. YSCDSG was started 5 years ago by a mother, of a newly diagnosed 7...
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Who CARES

There are three letters of the alphabet that can make the strongest of men weak and the bravest of them afraid to get tested, in fear of the...
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Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis

You've been having mysterious aches and pains in various joints all over your body. Sometimes the pain is in a hand, another time in a shoulder,...
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Maintenance stage- welcome to the adult world

  • Maintenance Stage
  • May 21, 2012
Dear Laura, My dad has been clean for 5 years, and he has held a job for 3 years, the longest I can remember. I am 18 years old and my dad has a...
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Acceptance reappears in late recovery

  • Late Recovery
  • May 16, 2012
Dear Laura, I had 1 year clean and I relapsed during the holidays. That time of yearbrings a lot of financial stress and drama in my marriage. Am I...
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Forgiveness takes courage

  • Middle Recovery
  • May 8, 2012
Dear Laura, No one likes me any more, I don't like myself for the things I have done during my addiction. My wife said she does not feel the...
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HIV/AIDS in Entertainment and Media, and an Allegory of Transformation and Hope

In the United States, society has been stigmatized in the world of HIV in the last 30 years. While what used to be a death sentence, many people...
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Homeless and HIV Positive

San Francisco, a migratory home to those who are living with HIV and AIDS, unfotunately is a place where basic needs fall through the cracks for...
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Honesty, openness and willingness verses people, places and things

  • Early Recovery
  • April 28, 2012
Dear Laura, I have been in recovery for 9 months, I was court ordered into a program whenthe copsbusted me with a small amount of cocaine. I get...
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