ICYMI: A Young Runner Battles Tourette Syndrome And The High Health Costs Of Contaminated Chicken

ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, we were taken by personal stories, including HuffPost Highline's first longform feature piece about a record-breaking young runner with Tourette syndrome. We were also captivated by a daughter chronicling her mother's mental illness through photographs, and touching public radio interview with British neurologist Oliver Sacks, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier this year. Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, listen to and love this week? 1. The Friend -- Esquire When the author's 36-year-old wife is given a terminal cancer diagnosis, his friend Dane drops everything to move in with the family and help them make it through two harrowing years. Quote: "I was in shock and stayed there a long time. We don't tell each other the truth about dying, as a people. Not real dying. Real dying, regular and mundane dying, is so hard and so ugly that it becomes the worst thing of all: It's grotesque." 2. Amaris Tyynismaa: The Human Body Is A Miracle, The Human Body Is A Curse -- The Huffington Post Highline The first story from The Huffington Post's new longform section, Highline, features a profile on a 13-year-old who can run a mile in under five minutes, even as she struggles with Tourette syndrome in her day-to-day life. Quote: "Amaris’s physique has become a matter of widespread conversation, at races and in online running forums. It scared her at first. 'Lol,' a commenter wrote of Ama...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news