Healthy Aging Story Submissions

Cheryl Renee Williams from Maryland

"Go back to school? You're kidding," I said to my doctor. I was terrified of the idea. First of all, I suffer from bipolar disorder, panic attacks and had been on disability for 20 years. I considered the idea and prayerfully went back to school. It had always been my dream to have children and since I could not, I decided...

Jennell from Michigan

This story begins in 2005. Being a very active girl I joined track & field and ran cross country, did journalism as the coeditor, staff writer and photojournalist, I was in the drama club, choir as a soprano, a compact ambassador,...

Susan Watkins from Georgia

I'm a soon to be 55 year old woman, who has just lost 100 lbs. due to WLS. The last 20 years of my life were so stressful and I seemed to have all the wrong habits; like eating once a day because I just didn't have time, not to mention when I did eat, (you guessed it) I ate the wrong foods. And exercise? Well if I didn't have...

Sal Medaris from Pennsylvania

I am an 77 year old man who has led a relatively healthy life. After my wife died two years ago, however, I began to lose my ambition to do anything other than sit around the house, eat unhealthy foods, watch TV, and surf the net. I noticed that I began to have trouble sleeping at night, had no energy during the day, and...

Marjorie Cusick from New York

I am a 64 year old woman (but still look great) and have been smoking cigarettes for 20 years..."but not really," my son tells me, because I "don't inhale." I want to quit because I don't want to get mouth cancer, which he says I eventually will, if I continue. There is a treadmill in my house which I purchased...