In the conversation that followed, she graphically detailed how she was ravaged by the disease and how - after being stricken in 1987 - her symptoms at times were so severe that for two years she was incapacitated and house-ridden. Seabiscuit is the story of a racehorse that captured America's heart during the Great Depression while Unbroken details the saga of Louis Zamperini, who survived a bomber crash in the Pacific in World War II and spent two and a half years as a prisoner of war.įor the summer issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, a special on well-being, I was curious what the word "well" meant to someone who has been unwell for so long - so I reached out to the author.
Seabiscuit and Unbroken captured the imagination of readers and there are more than 13 million copies in print. (She despises the term CFS, as she thinks it portrays those who suffer from it as lazy and contemptible.) Astonishingly, she wrote two great books while enduring vertigo and extreme exhaustion from her illness. Hillenbrand, one of the most successful writers of modern times, has suffered many years from chronic fatigue syndrome or, as she likes to refer to it, myalgic encephalomyelitis syndrome. She captures moments like getting on a horse to ride again in ways that make you feel like you, too, are riding and feeling the wind in your face.
Laura Hillenbrand speaks like she writes: beautifully.
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