About the Author

Author Carla Thompson has spent her life pushing through serious and chronic illness with positivity, determination, and a passion for helping others. As a pharmacy technician with NL Health Services for the past 17 years, she has used her lived experience to both educate healthcare professionals and support patients. She has also been a past board member and active volunteer with the Kidney Foundation of Newfoundland for more than twenty years, working as a peer support worker and advocate.

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On good days, in her free time, Carla enjoys travel, hunting, exercise, and her simple cabin life in Botwood, Newfoundland, where she lives with her incredibly loving and supportive husband, Dion, whose been right there at her side through it all.