Laura Garrett knows first-hand the importance of advocating for her health. For months after a bout with COVID-19 in August 2022, she didn’t feel quite right. “Everyone I talked to kept telling me it was just long COVID and that I was overreacting.

Some art is too direct and powerful to be painted with brushes. Cecilia Farrell, a painter who works predominantly in acrylics, prefers to use sharp edges: credit cards and razor blades.

Jim Abbatoy could not figure out what was going on. He and his wife Barb were in Florida in May 2022, a normal vacation for them, when he started feeling very sick overnight. In the morning, he felt fine.

Breast cancer runs in Kristy Tubiolo's family. When she was diagnosed in 2016, at the age of 35, it wasn’t exactly a surprise, but it wasn’t expected either.