Strong-spirit

Strong-spirit: biographies of notable people, their careers, life stories, key achievements and influence on culture, history and society.

Victim of paralysis

American woman loses half her weight after vertical sleeve gastrectomy

Debbie Van der Putten

Model with limited capabilities

Connie-Rose Seabourne

British girl, victim of Down syndrome.

British man with a tooth in his eye

American archer without both arms

Kirsty Brutnell

The Strong-Willed British Woman Battling Syringomyelia

Little girl with extremely rare ROHHAD syndrome

Chinese boy gains weight to save father

Emma Khanahmadi

Swedish woman with cystic fibrosis who underwent double lung transplant

Juan Suwanchatree

Thai woman with lymphatic filariasis

British young man who got rid of congenital breast deformation after two operations

A girl with cerebral palsy who became a model

Charlotte Hawkins

American woman, 49 years old, suffering from neurofibromatosis

Alannah Shevenell

American girl who received six donor organs

British man with advanced oral cancer

5-year-old Scotsman with deformed hands

American youth, wrestler, who lost his arms and legs in early childhood.

Little Australian girl with Addison's disease

British woman, victim of medical negligence.

British woman whose thyroid cancer was detected using a routine ultrasound

Belgian man who was in a coma for 23 years

British woman who had a double mastectomy.

British student, victim of a rare brain disease.

British baby becomes bone marrow donor.

British Apple Store Manager Dies of Appendiceal Cancer

British woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

The Chinese Waitress Who Saved a Man's Life

Cuban teenager with polyostotic fibrous osteodysplasia

A little American boy born with five thumbs.

Kaiden Jake Shattock

British baby born without top layer of skin

British woman, eczema victim

American adolescent with craniofacial duplication

American surfer with paralyzed legs.

A 98-year-old British woman moved into the same nursing home with her 80-year-old son.

British diver and shark photographer

A Chinese man with Madelung's disease.

Mother of son with leukemia who suffered from breast cancer

Canadian Paralympian and six-time world champion in wheelchair racing

Anjali Forber-Pratt

An American wheelchair racing athlete with a physical disability

Beauty blogger with paralysis.

A British woman who refused to have an abortion on doctors' advice and gave birth to a completely healthy son

American, prostate cancer victim.

Danny Nickerson

American boy, victim of cancer.

Brazilian Paralympic swimmer

Gabriel Perez Castellanos

The Spanish blind man who decided to become a judge

Britain's fattest woman is preparing for the third stage of weight loss

British girl who became a donor for eight people

Denise Florance

British cancer victim.

British boy suffers from 46 allergies.

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