Strong-spirit

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

American baseball pitcher with Proteus syndrome

American woman whose runny nose turned out to be a spinal fluid leak

British midwife left infertile by pituitary tumour

37-year-old disabled British woman denied welfare benefits

Richard Lee Norris

American who received a face transplant

British professional singer with lymphogranulomatosis

Australian woman with anorexia

17-year-old American woman who became a victim of “walking corpse syndrome”

Alexander Teves

American College Graduate Who Saved His Girlfriend

Shannon Everett

American woman who suffered from amniotic embolism and forgot her fiance and two children

Robert Marchand

102 year old cyclist

American teenager who saved a child

The American who saved another on the subway

American woman with stage 4 lung cancer

Little Indian with bleeding eyes

Jeffrey Van Middlebrook

The inventor who turned down a $60 million contract

The Yemeni girl who cries stones

Mother Briony Gordon

Antoine Boylston

American maintenance technician suffering from necrotizing fasciitis

Victim of the consequences of surgery

Indian mother who gave birth to a baby with two heads

British girl who suffered a stroke at age three

Sierra Sandison

Winner of the Miss Idaho beauty pageant

British worker, builder.

British woman whose daughter was bitten by a tick

British paratriathlon champion agrees to have right leg amputated privately

Australian mum loses 50kg by giving up soda.

Callie and Carter Torres

American conjoined twins

Ivorian teenager with Burkitt's lymphoma

American graduate student who became a victim of Stevens-Johnson syndrome due to lamotrigine use

British boy who started talking at age 9

Linda Faye Snelson

Australian grandmother who lost 50kg after the death of her partner and mother

American pregnant with twins with stage 4 melanoma

British man who lost weight quickly due to bowel cancer

Indian boy with bilateral pleural effusion

22-year-old British mother who died from cystic fibrosis

A resident of Madagascar who lived for forty years with a tumor in his neck weighing more than 7 kg

The first woman without a leg to conquer Everest

Billy Brogdon-Simmons

US Healthcare Worker Recovers After One of Six Aneurysms Ruptured

Scarlett Thomas

Little British girl with unbalanced translocation of chromosomes 7 and 10

A Cambodian man with severe gingival hyperplasia.

The American who got married in a hospital bed

Rachel Crockett

British woman, victim of premature birth.

The British woman who has 23 allergies

British estate agent with prolactinoma

Filipino baby with hydranencephaly

Six-year-old British boy 'willed' to donate his internal organs after death

Eva and Erika Sandoval

Conjoined twin girls successfully separated in 17-hour surgery

10-month-old British baby survives brain haemorrhage and meningitis

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