“I just want to say I admire your courage and your spunk and I wish you all the luck possible. You are one who certainly, when given a lemon – made lemonade!”
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
“Pam Dawber has asked me to write on her behalf. Pam was very touched by your story. She thinks what you are doing is very noble and caring.”
- Lori Jones for Pam Dawber, actress
“I think that Friends' Health Connection is doing wonderful things. Without support, I don’t know if I would be here today. The key stimulant for me was talking to people who’d been through heart transplant surgery who put me in a positive frame of mind and relaxed me and contributed to my transplant being a success.”
- Frank Torre, baseball legend and heart transplant recipient
“I have such respect for Roxanne Black and Friends' Health Connection. Roxanne saw a genuine need and through her leadership a genuine solution is now in place, which is making a difference in the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world. We have no guarantees that a clean bill of health will be with us throughout our lives. Change is the only certainty. But thankfully with Friends' Health Connection, we can turn to others for hope, guidance and support should we ever find ourselves in a challenging health period. I’m inspired by Roxanne’s insight and her commitment to helping us all live productive lives.”
- Kathy Ireland,
Supermodel, Lifestyle Designer and
author of Powerful Inspirations: Eight Lessons That Will Change Your Life
“Roxanne, your story is remarkable, and the most important thing is the lessons you have learned. You show gratitude and appreciation for your life experiences good and bad, realizing they have made you able to share love in a world of insanity. God Bless You.”
- Mariel Hemingway, actress
“Friends' Health Connection is an extraordinary organization and I am so honored to have been here.”
- Doris Roberts, actress and author
(co-star of the hit TV show Everybody Loves Raymond)
“I think about Roxanne being only 16, having to deal with this kidney problem, lupus, dialysis, and then starting this support network. She started from the bottom up, from a place with no resources, with very limited expectations of what her life might be, and she persevered. She created something… she achieved the impossible.”
- Christopher Reeve,
Actor, Disabled rights activist, and author of the book Nothing is Impossible
“For those of us who are disabled, or injured, or sick, or feeling that our lives are directionless, that we don’t know what we can do to make a difference, I urge you – don’t go down that route of negativity. Don’t go down that spiral into helplessness or [into] what I describe in my book as the numb zone. It’s a place where you stop feeling. You don’t feel pain, you don’t feel joy, you don’t really feel anything. You might end up not even wanting to get out of bed. You might not even want to leave your house because it’s too difficult, and because what’s the point? When you get into that numb zone, when you’re basically just staring out the window, or staring at television, or staring at the ceiling, you’ve just erased yourself from the map – and you shouldn’t do it. You don’t need to do it because every little motion forward that you make – whether it’s psychological or physical – is really important. So, it’s important to get out of bed, it’s important to make the effort to try to go some place, even if it’s difficult. It’s important to see if you can find some way to exercise, to improve your health. It’s important to speak out in any way you can to newspapers, to support groups like Friends' Health Connection… about what you need, what your life is like…Just simply taking action and just showing up is about 90% of the battle.”
- Christopher Reeve, taken from a lecture he gave
for Friends' Health Connection
“Roxanne, blessings on your journey of self-discovery.”
- Naomi Judd,
Country Singer and author
“Roxanne, you’ve made such a difference in so many lives – thanks for letting me be a part of it.”
- Joan Lunden,
former host of Good Morning America and author of Growing Up Healthy
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