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!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a cause that tugs at the heartstrings here at For Grace.  Our founder Cynthia Toussaint is currently battling a Triple Negative Breast Cancer recurrence, and, as such, our work continues to highlight the connection between pain and cancer utilizing events, live streams and story telling. Please consider submitting your pain-cancer story, and check out For Grace's 2021 conference that details this over-looked, complex relationship.

Check out For Grace's October Story of the Month. Woman in pain Katy Itacy had a successful law career in her early thirties until excruciating back pain forced her into early retirement. Despite her thinking its cause was a re-emerging childhood spinal tumor, doctors repeatedly said she was wrong, even suggesting her pain was "psychosomatic." Katy eventually found a "tethered-cord syndrome" specialist who confirmed her suspicion; however, it was too little too late. Katy now advocates for herself and others who have been neglected by healthcare professionals.