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NEW YORK -- Hollywood star Teri Garr adds her voice to more than 30 others who write about their journey with multiple sclerosis in a new book.
Garr, an Oscar-nominated actress best known for her movies "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Mr. Mom" and "Tootsie," revealed in 2002 that she has multiple sclerosis. Like many with MS, it took a long time to diagnose, Garr said she started noticing symptoms while filming "Tootsie" in 1982, but a diagnosis took years.
Garr wrote the introduction to the book "Voices of Multiple Sclerosis: The Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength" which recounts the stories of 33 spouses, children, friends and patients living with MS.
In the book, a daughter describes watching her mother balance her disease and an active life in "Recollection," while a physician with MS says laughter is the best medicine when answering questions about her diagnosis in "Telling the World."
The book is the seventh in a series of books that provide real-life stories as an avenue of support and hope for those who must live with chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
Debra LaChance said the anthology was conceptualized when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she sought out the personal stories of those who had been through what she was experiencing.
"Voices of Multiple Sclerosis" is available at bookstores and online at LaChance Publishing at" www.lachancepublishing.com.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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