Nobody walks out of the Academy Awards -- Sneakers to the rescue -- Gulping Tylenol -- No time for derailment -- Rockin' to the Pointer Sisters -- Losing control -- Playing with fire -- Pepperoni pizza at Cedars -- Running at steroid speed -- An ET Christmas -- Stable until ready -- Here today, gone tomorrow -- Oprah, my best friend for a day -- Rejected for the rat cage -- Just do it -- And the results are -- The robo arm makeover -- The Enbrel honeymoon -- Nightly and me -- Double-dipping at UCLA -- The grown-up girl's osteo race -- A make-over for arthritis? -- The future.
Summary:
"Christine Schwab has lived a life of Hollywood and New York glamour most people can only dream about. For twenty years she appeared as a fashion and beauty reporter on the nation's leading television shows...But for most of those years, she was hiding a devastating illness that threatened to take over her entire life...In 'Take Me Home from the Oscars', Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering from rheumatoid arthritis..."--Dust jacket flap.
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