Linda* and her husband, who live in Florida, are “trying to figure out a new name for retired,” she laughs. “I do a lot of volunteer work, so I’m what you’d call semiretired.” For 30 years, Linda worked for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). “I had a lot of management skills; I’d worked my way up,” […]
For Jake*, a musician who makes his living playing violin in Broadway shows, recording sessions and classical orchestras, the symptoms of chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy (CIDP) started slowly. “I started experiencing very subtle tingling in my pinky in my right hand,” Jake says. “At the time, I didn’t think too much of it … If […]
