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Book Since John Got Sick

Download or read book Since John Got Sick written by Allison Greene and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John was always healthy. Then at age twenty-six a rare autoimmune disease struck out of nowhere. “Idiopathic,” doctors said of the phenomenon that tried to take his life violently several times and to destroy his spirit more quietly over the next several years. Since John Got Sick: A Quest for Survival and Faith is the story of a young man’s heroic battle to survive both the initial onslaught and the ongoing assault of a traumatic autoimmune disease and its ensuing consequences (including dialysis, disability, transplant, depression, opioid dependence, and post-traumatic stress disorder). Simultaneously, it is the story of a mother’s love and strength against daunting odds, including donating a kidney. Traumatic illness often ends in a relatively quick death or a sudden miraculous recovery. John’s was neither. His is a story, with parts written in his words, of courage, endurance, and patience, along with a stubborn refusal to quit. While his mother sought God and prayer, John’s will to live was based in something else—perhaps even more intrinsic. For anyone who has suffered a serious illness, whether personally or with a child; anyone facing the challenges of autoimmune disease; and any medical professionals who have worked to help them, this book provides insight from the patient’s perspective. Patient advocates, clergy, and community members may benefit from vicariously experiencing the multifaceted challenges—mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and financial—shown here. And likely any mother, or parent, will identify, feel the heartache, and wonder, Why not me?

Book Since John Got Sick

Download or read book Since John Got Sick written by Allison Greene and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John was always healthy. Then at age twenty-six a rare autoimmune disease struck out of nowhere. "Idiopathic," doctors said of the phenomenon that tried to take his life violently several times and to destroy his spirit more quietly over the next several years. Since John Got Sick: A Quest for Survival and Faith is the story of a young man's heroic battle to survive both the initial onslaught and the ongoing assault of a traumatic autoimmune disease and its ensuing consequences (including dialysis, disability, transplant, depression, opioid dependence, and post-traumatic stress disorder). Simultaneously, it is the story of a mother's love and strength against daunting odds, including donating a kidney. Traumatic illness often ends in a relatively quick death or a sudden miraculous recovery. John's was neither. His is a story, with parts written in his words, of courage, endurance, and patience, along with a stubborn refusal to quit. While his mother sought God and prayer, John's will to live was based in something else--perhaps even more intrinsic. For anyone who has suffered a serious illness, whether personally or with a child; anyone facing the challenges of autoimmune disease; and any medical professionals who have worked to help them, this book provides insight from the patient's perspective. Patient advocates, clergy, and community members may benefit from vicariously experiencing the multifaceted challenges--mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and financial--shown here. And likely any mother, or parent, will identify, feel the heartache, and wonder, Why not me?

Book No Longer Sick

Download or read book No Longer Sick written by Allison Greene and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Longer Sick chronicles the latter stage of a young man’s decade-long illness with End Stage Renal Disease. Told from a mother’s heart, the account reveals not only the physical aspects specific to kidney disease—multiple hospitalizations, dialysis, kidney transplant, immunosuppression—but also the social, emotional, and mental hardships. This book is about youth, pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, opioid use, financial distress, family conflict, navigating a complex health care system, grief, and what goes into losing a person. The book honors a brave young man for his valiant fight.

Book I Got Sick Then I Got Better

Download or read book I Got Sick Then I Got Better written by Jenny Allen and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER is a comic riff on one woman's adventures after falling down the medical rabbit hole. Diagnosed with and treated for ovarian cancer, Jenny tells her story of the harrowing tailspin she took following her diagnosis

Book Sick Souls  Healthy Minds

Download or read book Sick Souls Healthy Minds written by John Kaag and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James believed that philosophy was meant to articulate, and help answer, a single existential question, one which lent itself to the title of one of his most famous essays: "Is life worth living?" Through examination of an array of existentially loaded topics covered in his works-truth, God, evil, suffering, death, and the meaning of life-James concluded that it is up to us to make life worth living. He said that our beliefs, the truths that guide our lives, matter-their value and veracity turn on the way they play out practically for ourselves and our communities. For James, philosophy was about making life meaningful, and for some of us, liveable. This is the core of his "pragmatic maxim," that truth should be judged on the bases of its practical consequences. Kaag shows how James put this maxim into use in his philosophy and his life and how we can do so in our own. .

Book Never Be Sick Again

Download or read book Never Be Sick Again written by Raymond Francis and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a practical theory of health and disease that aims to revolutionize the way we look at illness. This book provides readers a holistic approach to living that will empower them to get well - and stay well.

Book You Don t Look Sick

Download or read book You Don t Look Sick written by Joy H. Selak and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles one person's true life story of illness and her physicians compassionate commentary as they journey through the four stages of chronic illness; Getting Sick, Being Sick, Grief and Acceptance and Living Well. Designed for people at all stages of the chronic illness journey, this book is also illuminating for caregivers and loved ones.

Book Turok s Tribe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Goldstein
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2008-01-30
  • ISBN : 0595604528
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Turok s Tribe written by Bernard Goldstein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SEQUEL TO TUROK'S GIFT For ten years the United States had been producing air, sea, and ground vehicles using the star propulsion system invented by John Greenberg. The new vehicles were superior that it gave the U.S, an overwhelming military advantage. During the U.S. build up, the Russian KGB had been frantically trying to uncover the secrets behind John's propulsion invention. Their failure was largely a result of John's, and his friend Emily's, interference. The Russians had a sudden reversal of fortune when they agreed to join the U.S. led mission to explore the universe. John Greenberg was to head the international mission, and the Russians insisted he had to be based in Russia. Now they surely would be able to get the desired information. How could they miss? John Greenberg would be in their power; his pregnant wife, Anna, would be with him; and she was by far the best undercover agent in the KGB's U.S. operation.

Book No Longer Sick

Download or read book No Longer Sick written by Allison Greene and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Longer Sick chronicles the latter stage of a young man's decade-long illness with End Stage Renal Disease. Told from a mother's heart, the account reveals not only the physical aspects specific to kidney disease--multiple hospitalizations, dialysis, kidney transplant, immunosuppression--but also the social, emotional, and mental hardships. This book is about youth, pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, opioid use, financial distress, family conflict, navigating a complex health care system, grief, and what goes into losing a person. The book honors a brave young man for his valiant fight.

Book Illness as Metaphor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Sontag
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Illness as Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pandemic  Inc

Download or read book Pandemic Inc written by J. David McSwane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This startling, vital book deserves our attention.” —San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, called “revelatory” by The Washington Post, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington, DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and monumental, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality written by Markus Werning and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. Understanding how compositionality works is a central element of syntactic and semantic analysis and a challenge for models of cognition. It is a key concept in linguistics and philosophy and in the cognitive sciences more generally, and is without question one of the most exciting fields in the study of language and mind. The authors of this book report critically on lines of research in different disciplines, revealing the connections between them and highlighting current problems and opportunities. The force and justification of compositionality have long been contentious. First proposed by Frege as the notion that the meaning of an expression is generally determined by the meaning and syntax of its components, it has since been deployed as a constraint on the relation between theories of syntax and semantics, as a means of analysis, and more recently as underlying the structures of representational systems, such as computer programs and neural architectures. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality explores these and many other dimensions of this challenging field. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students in linguistics and philosophy and to everyone concerned with the study of language and cognition including those working in neuroscience, computational science, and bio-informatics.

Book The Northeastern Reporter

Download or read book The Northeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 2338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medical Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Frederick Shrady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1208 pages

Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey

Download or read book Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey written by Medical Society of New Jersey and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the society's Annual reports.

Book Tang of Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Herbert Knibbs
  • Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Tang of Life written by Henry Herbert Knibbs and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1918 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jim Waring of Sonora town

Download or read book Jim Waring of Sonora town written by Henry Herbert Knibbs and published by New York : Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1918 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: