Read Christine's story of supporting her son's and her own chronic illness -- and how her experience changed the health care system.

“I wanted to give something back,” she says. “I sat on the Council for a year and chaired it for four. I couldn’t make my son better. I couldn’t cure him, but maybe I could make life a little bit better for a lot of people by being on this council. And it really did feed my soul. It gave me a little bit of power back in a world gone totally chaotic.”