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Share your health experience to inspire others. Whether it's your recovery journey from illness or how you're successfully keeping your health on track we want to hear from you.

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Kate Locke

Hearing again

04/03/2010

Have you ever imagined what it might be like to lose a sense, and get it back again? Profoundly deaf writer Kate Locke shares her story.

Melinda Hickin

My son was still born

28/01/2010
Having a baby changes you forever. But what happens when that baby is stillborn? Melinda Hickin shares her story.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, reproduction-and-contraception, womens-health

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Dengue fever: it could ruin your holiday

17/12/2009
When his young son caught dengue haemorrhagic fever while visiting family in downtown Saigon, John Horner had to dust off his schoolboy French.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, infectious-diseases-other, travel-and-tourism

Kirsty Leigh Smith

Our angel

29/10/2009
Lucy Kyriacou is an angel, and not just because of her bright and shiny personality.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, diseases-and-disorders

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Ten days with swine flu

30/07/2009
Maree Baker tells how she and her family were confined to their home for 10 days when they recently had swine flu.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, influenza

Mark Straker

My eager baby: Rosie's early arrival

24/06/2009
When Luise Straker's daughter Rosie was born 11 weeks early there were no 'giddy, joyous scenes', but her family's journey wasn't a tragedy.

Tags: infant-health, pregnancy-and-childbirth, womens-health

Jillian Critchley

Charcot-Marie-Tooth and my family

28/05/2009
When Jillian Critchley's date told her he had Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, she had no idea how the disease would affect her life.

Tags: diseases-and-disorders, brain-and-nervous-system

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ADHD - a parent's tale

06/05/2009
John Hams always suspected his daughter was different to most other children, but it was many years before he discovered what was wrong.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, adhd

Chris Gosfield

Guillain-Barre syndrome - a Lucky story

09/03/2009
Grammy Award winning musician and ABC Radio National presenter Lucky Oceans takes us on his frightening journey to paralysis and back.

Tags: diseases-and-disorders, brain-and-nervous-system

The year my leg broke

20/01/2009
Alice Wylie* discovered having a broken leg isn't as trivial as you may think, especially if you live alone.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, pain, bones-and-muscles, sports-injuries

Andrew Jones

Box jellyfish: a travel health warning

04/12/2008
Andrew Jones's relaxing family holiday in Thailand went horribly wrong when his son was stung by a box jellyfish.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, epidemiology, travel-and-tourism

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