When Doctors put two-year old Lori Hartwell on dialysis after her kidney mysteriously stopped working, they didn’t expect her to live.  That was the first time she beat seemingly insurmountable odds to survive, and she continues to one-up the statistics today.  In Chronically Happy, Hartwell shares her remarkable story and introduces the principles she’s relied on for more than 30 years to thrive while living with kidney disease.  Hartwell’s wisdom covers a range of subjects, from dating and working to building self-esteem and deepening relationships. 

Through anecdotes and workbook style exercises, Chronically Happy helps people with illness

This book is filled with enlightened anecdotes from the author and others, and will bring new hope and joy to those who cope with diabetes, lupus, arthritis AIDS-HIV, alcoholism, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, heart disease, hepatitis, irritable bowel syndrome and other chronic illnesses. Lori Hartwell's stories and words of wisdom inspire readers to embrace a joyful life in spite of their physical limitations.

If you have a chronic illness, Chronically Happy is the tool you need to shape the life you’re always envisioned but never thought possible.

Price: $12.95 a copy (plus shipping and handling) 

There are several ways to order Chronically Happy: 

1.  Order online at http://www.chronicallyhappy.com
2.  Order online at www.amazon.com
3.  Complete and fax back the form (PDF File) available at www.ChronicallyHappy.com.
4.  Call Poetic Media Press (415-447-4800 ext. 4) and they will take the order over the telephone.
5.  Go to your local bookstore and ask them to special order it (ISBN No. 0972278303, Poetic Media Press).

About the Author:

Lori Hartwell has lived with illness for more than three decades.  As a small child, her kidney became permanently damaged after she ingested the E. coli bacteria.  At age twelve, they shut down completely.  Over the next decade, Hartwell underwent dialysis, countless surgeries, and two failed transplants.  Her third transplant, in 1990, was a success. Today she runs Hartwell Communications and the Renal Support Network, a non-profit group she founded in 1993.  She travels around the country educating and inspiring patients and healthcare professionals, with her stories, insight and humor.  Hartwell lives in Southern California with her husband Dean, their two dogs, a cat, and an African grey parrot named Johnny.

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