Download or read book The Little Girl that Never Got to Be written by Karin Newsom and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Girl that Never Got to Be: A Journey through Abuse and Mental Illness By Karin Newsom The Little Girl that Never Got to Be is the tale of Karin Newsom’s journey through her childhood as the victim of abuse by many people in her life who she thought were loved ones. A therapeutic tool, this book helped Karin deal with the many trials and tribulations she had to endure. Join her on this poignant journey, and maybe you too will find comfort and hope.

Download or read book Because I d Hate to Just Disappear written by Don Hardy and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Illness, in the larger sense of mortality,” Don Hardy writes, “is an inescapable shared trait among all living creatures, and we humans know about it, whether or not we want to talk about it.” Because I’d Hate to Just Disappear is a portrait of a husband and wife, Don and Heather Hardy, thrown into the physical and emotional machinery of Don being diagnosed with leukemia and going through chemotherapy and treatment over a period of close to two years. In this thoughtful and exquisite account, Don and Heather narrate Don’s struggle in real-time. Disarmingly honest, they recount each intimate stage of a couple living through cancer together, the mental and physical struggles, the humor and visceral emotion to reveal how two very different personalities shape—and are shaped by—the experience of cancer and its treatment. Through these moments emerge a constant flow of human kindness and discovery that lifts them each day.

Download or read book NO EXCUSES written by Faith and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Excuses! H.Y.B. Ladies Handle Your Business is a book of empowerment. Ladies the time has come to throw out all of your excuses. It’s time to live your best life. Faith is the sister in your corner. She’s the best friend cheering you on and screaming at the top of her lungs “No Excuses! H.Y.B. Ladies Handle Your Business”!

Download or read book The Story of Me a Black Nurse written by Diane Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative is about the personal struggles of being a Black Woman and being a Black Professional in a society that is still bound with racial and gender bias. Her stories navigate you through the career of a young woman who has hopes, dreams, needs, a purpose and aspirations but she faces constant opposition to fulfilling and attaining these basic human requirements. Like so many people of color before her, she achieves a certain measure of success but the measure of success is minor compared to what she must do to achieve it. It is a reflection of the despair she was feeling when she wrote it but does not fully reveal the appreciation, compassion and love that she has for mankind. It is time for a change!

Download or read book A Cancer Made Mess written by Jessica Bell-Alvarez and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After suddenly being diagnosed with a rare form of aggressive cancer, I immediately started spiraling downward. Denial Loneliness Fear Depression Anger Self-destructive behaviors My life was a disaster. I was a mess. I was doing just about everything I was instructed not to. All sense of responsibility flew out the window right along with my sense of morals. Further and further I slid into the deepest, darkest part of my life. I had come to terms with the fact that my life was over. I was going to die. Until I was rescued from not only cancer-but from myself.

Download or read book To Boob Or Not To Boob written by Liza L. Hernandez and published by Liza L. Hernandez. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a breast cancer diagnosis and bilateral mastectomy, I chose reconstructive surgery with implants. Life with my new boobs lasted 16 happy years. Then, the point came when I had to replace the implants after they became hard and painful. I researched my options for removing the implants and learned about an aesthetic flat closure procedure. If I chose this option, I wouldn’t have to have any more surgeries in the future. While deciding what to do, I read a quote from the Mary Poppins movie: “Open different doors, you may find a different ‘you’ there that you never knew was yours. Anything can happen.” The quote resonated with me, so I followed my heart and said, “Off with the implants!” With this book, I created a guide with practical suggestions for before and after surgery and the first year of healing. I share how I found the right look for me and my new figure and how I dealt mentally and emotionally with the changes. I also show how I now have boobs again, featherweight removable ones that are pretty cool.

Download or read book The Storm written by Amanda Avila and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the most exciting time of their lives tragedy strikes; changing their lives forever. Their relationship threatens to be ripped apart by the devastating diagnosis of cancer. Prepare to laugh and cry as Amanda painstakingly documents both the physical and emotional sides of cancer. Vividly portraying the agony of treatments and the strain jeopardizing their relationship. Throughout it all she's able to courageously become the voice of cancer patients. As unexpected humorous moments arise from what appears to be her darkest days. You're left rejoicing as she triumphantly battles to overcome the trials and uncertainty that has become her life.

Download or read book Change Me Into Zeus s Daughter written by Barbara Robinette Moss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober, captured his children's timid awe, but when (more often) drunk, roused them from bed for severe punishment or bizarre all-night poker games. Their mother was their angel: erudite and stalwart -- her only sin her inability to leave her husband for the sake of the children. Unlike the rest of her family, Barbara bore the scars of this abuse and neglect on the outside as well as the inside. As a result of childhood malnutrition and a complete lack of medical and dental care, the bones in her face grew abnormally ("like a thin pine tree"), and she ended up with what she calls "a twisted, mummy face." Barbara's memoir brings us deep into not only the world of Southern poverty and alcoholic child abuse but also the consciousness of one who is physically frail and awkward, relating how one girl's debilitating sense of her own physical appearance is ultimately saved by her faith in the transformative powers of artistic beauty: painting and writing. From early on and with little encouragement from the world, Barbara embodied the fiery determination to change her fate and achieve a life defined by beauty. At age seven, she announced to the world that she would become an artist -- and so she did. Nightly, she prayed to become attractive, to be changed into "Zeus's daughter," the goddess of beauty, and when her prayers weren't answered, she did it herself, raising the money for years of braces followed by facial surgery. Growing up "so ugly," she felt the family's disgrace all the more acutely, but the result has been a keenly developed appreciation for beauty -- physical and artistic -- the evidence of which can be seen in her writing. Despite the deprivation, the lingering image from this memoir is not of self-pity but of the incredible bond between these eight siblings: the raucous, childish fun they had together, the making-do, and the total devotion to their desperate mother, who absorbed most of the father's blows for them and who plied them with art and poetry in place of balanced meals. Gracefully and intelligently woven in layers of flashback, the persistent strength of Barbara Moss's memoir is itself a testament to the nearly lifesaving appreciation for literature that was her mother's greatest gift to her children.

Download or read book Mr Monk is a Mess written by Lee Goldberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective. An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place.... No one likes to come home to a mess—least of all Monk and Natalie. But when they return briefly to San Francisco from an extended stay working as cops in New Jersey, Natalie discovers somebody has been sleeping in her bed. But this Goldilocks is not asleep. She’s dead. If that’s not bad enough, investigators find marked money from a Federal sting operation stuffed under Natalie’s mattress. Now her life is a real mess and she needs Monk’s help to clean it up. But Monk has problems of his own. His brother Ambrose is desperate to find Yuki, his missing lover, but his agoraphobia prevents him from leaving the house. Ambrose needs a man on the outside—and that man is Monk, who is torn, because he’s glad to see her go. As the two investigations begin, and the body count rises, it quickly becomes clear to Monk that Yuki has a dangerous past…and that they are pursuing a ruthless, cold-blooded killer that nobody would ever want to mess with…

Download or read book Girl Stop Apologizing written by Rachel Hollis and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Hollis points out the pitfalls, challenges, and excuses that stop us from achieving our aspirations. Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: Women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they’re afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough. In Girl, Stop Apologizing, #1 New York Times bestselling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people—whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee—instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. In this book, Hollis helps you to: identify the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, And the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself. Hollis shares stories and principles with raw honesty that inspires her readers to discover and take the practical steps that will put them on a lifelong path of personal growth. Girl, Stop Apologizing is the life- changing guide you need to dump your excuses, embrace your dreams, set boundaries, and gain real confidence in life.

Download or read book Slow Dancing with the Devil written by Susan Bartz Herrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Herrick's memoir follows the story of her beloved son and only child, Luke, through his struggle with opioid addiction, recovery and sobriety, and untimely and heartbreaking death. Luke suffered a near-fatal car accident that left him partially paralyzed and addicted to Oxycontin, the very drug that helped save his life. Susan turned to the streets to obtain Suboxone, a legal but medically restricted opioid blocker, in an attempt to save her son's life. Remembering this, she writes, "The day I became my son's drug dealer, we both died, in a way." This poignant and compelling memoir exposes the rampant prescribing of Oxycontin, upwards of 600mg daily in cases like Luke's, and the role overprescribing plays in the disease of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Through Luke's story, the author addresses failed public policies, misguided medical practices, societal stigmas, and enabling tendencies of loved ones that hinder recovery for those afflicted with SUD.

Download or read book Third Earth 2033 written by Aubrey Eddy and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father God the Creator was an entity without form in space. God became self-aware when He created His own likeness. After creating the Angles in His own likeness, God tasked the Angles to conjure up mankind for God's enjoyment. The Angels failed with 1st Earth due to the caveman. 2nd Earth failed because of the evil Nephilim. 3rd Earth, home of the Rapture.

Download or read book Laugh Lines written by Barbara Klaus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.

Download or read book Hot Mess Mom written by Lisa Wood Shapiro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious breastfeeding tell-all, the newly titled reissue of How My Breasts Saved the World, Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her misadventures of new motherhood from the delivery of her daughter and her rookie days as a food source to the bittersweet end of weaning. This may be the information age, but so much of nursing and new motherhood know-how still exists in the smart gal's rumor culture. Only after Shapiro shares her own saga, complete with lactation consultants, chocolate binges, and a new use for green cabbage, do her friends and relatives confess to their own travails. New motherhood always happens to the childless, but it is not always instinctual, and one doesn't have to go it alone. There are professionals who can make it work without pain, and it does get easier. Whether or not your breasts have been involved in any world-saving activities, you won't be able to put this book down until you've read the last line.

Download or read book You Dont Need 10 written by Katie Taylor Wyman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She only has one hand," my husband said to me. I had just awoken from recovery, so I was a little foggy. "What?" "She's missing her right hand," he said. I looked at him and said, "Are you kidding? That's not funny." "I'm not kidding, honey. There's a doctor waiting outside to talk to us." I immediately broke down. How, as a mother, did I not know? I just saw her! I thought to myself. I guess they only let me see her for a few seconds and I didn't even get to touch her. And now that I thought about it, she was wrapped in a blanket and only one little hand was sticking out, and then she and Russell were gone... How did this happen? Why did this happen? How does a baby not have 10 fingers and 10 toes? "Where is she? I need her now!" I am not a writer not a blogger. I'm just a mom who journals. This is a testimony about what it's been like raising a limb-different child so far, from birth to age six. It's hard to raise any child. But when your child is labeled as "different", it's a whole new ballgame. I hope you can find inspiration and comfort in these pages. Katie Wyman and her husband Russell had their first child, Jeten in 2010 and Paisely followed the next year. Maverick recently came along in 2017. The Wymans are very close and love spending time together traveling, camping, and relaxing at home. They also enjoy time with Katie's parents in their Park Rapids, MN home. They have been very active as foster parents since their license in 2016. Katie has been a wish granter for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota for many years. The entire family is very active in Our Redeemers Lutheran Church in Williston, North Dakota, and God is the center of their lives.

Download or read book Surviving Neurosurgery written by Nitin Agarwal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience is a practical guide to the inner workings of the lives of neurosurgeons, healthcare partners, and patients. To this end, this text serves as a first-hand documentary of the unique challenges faced as one progresses through their career. It is a snapshot in time capturing the experiences of both patients and providers. The text is divided into seven parts that run the gamut of a neurosurgeon’s career symbolic of the seven years of neurosurgical training. These narratives include, but are not limited to, residency challenges, surgical nuances, research and funding, embracing humanity, patient experiences, and overcoming hurdles along the journey. Chapters share the wisdom and experiences of over 100 authors consisting of patients, trainees, advanced practice providers, and attending neurosurgeons.

Download or read book Lucky Dog written by Sarah Boston and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets. What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband’s portable ultrasound machine to investigate her lump — he’s a vet, too — it’s clear this will not be your typical cancer memoir. She takes us on a hysterical and thought-provoking journey through the human health care system from the perspective of an animal doctor. Weaving funny and poignant stories of dogs she’s treated along the way, this is an insightful memoir about what the human medical world can learn from the way we treat our canine counterparts. Lucky Dog teaches us to trust our instincts, be our own advocates, and laugh while we’re doing it.