Personal StoryMichaelMy Journey with Pernicious Anemia At 54, I'm a world traveler with 15 years of experience living abroad as an expat. My career as a freelance journalist has taken me from fashion shows to American-Georgian defense projects, and more recently, I've...
Personal StoryD. Rice 65 year old male Portland, OR USA 3 years after diagnosis. Only one in family with PA How could someone’s life be so bleak and so fraught that they would feel like ending it? Why decide to stop, rather than to choose to fight back? I was thinking...
Personal Story SheilaIt is almost 30 years since I was diagnosed with PA. I have always been anaemic, have never been able to give blood, and struggled to keep weight on until after my diagnosis and treatment. In 1993, when I was 30, I had a cone biopsy (preventative...
Personal Story Åsa MolinI chose to become a member of PAS as it is a large well-known international charity that has contact with researchers, provides good support and information about Pernicious Anaemia/B12 deficiency to its members through its website, newsletter,...
Personal Story Clive ParsonsOn 3rd May 1959 at the age of 17 my peptic ulcer burst. The surgeon was called and he operated that afternoon removing two thirds of my stomach and that, unbeknown to me was the start of my PA Journey. As my health declined exhaustion...
Personal Story Bob StarkI don’t know for sure when I first became affected by Pernicious Anaemia. Certainly, with hindsight, long before it was formally diagnosed. My first 30 working years were spent in the RAF and although the later years were largely sedentary, I...