Check out For Grace's November Story of the Month that focuses on the pain-cancer connection. Donna Pinto was blindsided a decade ago when she was diagnosed with Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), also known as "Stage Zero" breast cancer. After initial conventional treatment left her disfigured and in chronic pain, Donna hit the brakes. She took a deep breath, centered herself and did extensive research that led her to a path for healing. Donna then started DCIS 411 to raise awareness of this controversial diagnosis, one that often does a great deal of unnecessary harm.

On October 19, 1982, Cynthia Toussaint sustained the ballet injury that changed her life forever. Seeded from childhood trauma, her conventional injury,  a hamstring tear, sparked Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (aka, "The Suicide Disease".) With time, CRPS spread throughout Cynthia's body, causing her to be bedridden for a decade and unable to speak for five of those years. Today, she has 19 over-lapping conditions and is currently battling a Triple-Negative Breast Cancer recurrence. Cynthia, from her wheelchair, started For Grace 20+ years ago to bring worldwide awareness to the plight of Women In Pain, the pain-cancer connection and trauma as the main driver for chronic illness. Cynthia shares, "While CRPS robbed me of the life I'd planned, it gave me a great gift - the pursuit of truth and helping others avoid my fate with that truth."

Pain News Network, the leading pain patient online blog in the US, has honored For Grace for our 20+ years of serving the women in pain community!  PNN Managing Editor, Pat Anson, for the month of October is placing the For Grace logo with an accompanying link on the sidebar of each of the site's highly-trafficked pages as acknowledgement for our worthy cause. As a side note, For Grace founder Cynthia Toussaint has been a long-time columnist for PNN, recently detailing her ongoing travails with pain and cancer. Thank you, Pat, for this very nice tip o' the hat!