Life with Chronic Illness

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
We look into how people learn to live with chronic, severe illnesses. Journalist Richard M. Cohen, who has MS, has followed the lives of five people who have serious conditions like ALS and bipolar disorder; he writes about them in a new book called Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope. He’s joined by his wife Meredith Vieira of the "Today Show."

Event: Richard Cohen will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, January 8 at 7 pm
Upper West Barnes & Noble
82nd Street and Broadway

Weigh in: Do you have a chronic, severe illness? Tell us how you’ve learned to live with it, and what the greatest difficulties/successes have been.

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