Strong-spirit

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

A British woman suffering from lipedema who did not know about her illness for a long time

Veronica Colbert

Australian procurement specialist loses 90kg after bariatric surgery

Sick British girl receives kidney from her grandmother

Blind American amateur skateboarder

Girl with amputated leg

Thai baby with huge cancerous tumor

Conjoined twins

Little American Girl with Lymphedema

American kickboxer with Down syndrome

Homeless Indian woman attacked, infested with maggots and rescued by charity

The British man who amputated his own arm

Indian woman gives birth to baby girl with half a head and bulging eyes

35-year-old British woman who lost half her weight to skydive

Maltese boy with ROHHAD syndrome

Briton with three transplanted fingers on his right hand from his feet

Macey Brietenbeck

American teenage girl with visceral myopathy

A woman who lived on a ventilator for 61 years

Christine and Aaron Cheung

Asian couple who gave birth to a blond son

The American Who Spent 96 Minutes Without Breathing

American woman suffering from end-stage renal failure receives new kidney from her daughter

British woman who lost her femur and had her foot reattached to it

Rachael Reynolds

British woman with neurofibromatosis type I.

British premature baby

Willow Rae Porter

Little American girl with I-cell disease

Adrian Anantawan

Canadian violinist without right hand

American Man Who Overcame Stage IV Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Indian girl with erythroderma

Kirsty and Carl Taylor-Pendlebury

Newlyweds with food poisoning

Sarah Cocchiara

American woman with choriocarcinoma.

An elderly Chinese woman playing basketball

British runner who was left paralyzed after a diving accident

Incapacitated Briton who starved to death

Tomasz Nadolski

A Pole with Fabry disease

Hirotada Ototake

Japanese man born without arms and legs who became a journalist and writer

Australian athlete, wheelchair racer, Paralympic Games gold medalist.

Lauren Bradfield

20 year old female patient with stroke

American woman with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

An Irishman, an adventurer and adventurer who is also blind and paralyzed.

Young British woman determined to reunite with old friend who became a victim of brain cancer

48 year old American woman with half a jaw

Justin Tiernan-Reese

British boy with Mobius syndrome

Young British woman with Fowler's syndrome

Australian woman with trypophobia

Chinese construction worker has 3m metal rod stuck into his skull

American student, one-legged tap dancer.

American woman with severe eczema and addiction to topical steroids

American girl with lamellar ichthyosis

British man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

American triple amputee war veteran

American, blind, runner and motivator.

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