“You can’t feel your feet and you want to play a racket sport?” That was my sister-in-law,...
Janet Ellis
Patient advocate and neuropathy support group leader with over a decade of personal experience managing peripheral neuropathy. I started Neuropathy Resource to create the resource I wish had existed when I was first diagnosed — honest, accessible information written by someone who actually lives with this condition. Everything here comes from personal experience, published medical research, and conversations with healthcare providers. I am not a medical professional — I'm someone who has walked this road and wants to help others navigate it.
My friend Marcia almost skipped the phone call. She had seen a note in our neuropathy support...
I own a resistance band set that lived in a closet for eleven months. It wasn’t laziness....
The letter came in a plain white envelope with the insurance company logo on it, and I...
The bottle sat on Ruth’s kitchen counter for six years. Every morning she poured a glass of...
Every article about walking with neuropathy tells you to walk on flat, even ground. Thank you. Now...
The story is almost always the same when someone finally lands in a neurology office with lumbosacral...
Some days the walk costs you everything and the watch says 2,100 steps. You went to the...
The first time a woman in my support group described it, she said, “It’s like someone is...
You had surgery. The operation went fine — no complications noted, discharge instructions in hand. But two...