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"I was taking sleeping pills just to make the day go away": The loneliness no one talks about “I was mentally on the floor, taking sleeping pills just to make the day go away" Updated When Elma’s husband Bill died in 2010, her life fell apart. The person she had spent 51 years married to was no longer there and she felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness. Elma, who asked to be referred to by her first name only, suffered further heartbreak when her best friend died a few years later from c...

Peggy Lillis Foundation and Ferring Pharmaceuticals Partner to Support Patients with C. difficile Infection Share Article Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. diff Education & Advocacy (PLF), the leading patient organization combating C. difficile infections (CDI), partners with Ferring Pharmaceuticals through a new sponsorship to help fund new and existing patient advocacy initiatives. Joining forces, PLF and Ferring are eager to continue helping people living with CDI and their loved ones. PLF Stac...

Its a sharp contrast to the life he had just lived for four years. how do you provide that same sense of purpose and that sim community that he had when he was in. we think we can do tha by organizing and training and deploying veterans for response to national disasters. youll see in the clips here that whether its moore, oklahoma or hurricane sandy or the typhoon in the philippines, theres an opportunity for veterans to use the schools they learned in the military to help people in desperate n...

Dugard who was, as you know, found in 2009 after 18 years in captivity, so the message is there is always hope, and these families, as i have heard them speak, they never gave up hope. they had faith that they would see their children again, and that is the message and the commitment that we have at the national center, and we work with families who are still looking for their children, and they actually provide a peer support network called band of hope. they work together, they work with law e...