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Today's Stoic, Tomorrow's Hero? (Hardcover)
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Today's Stoic, Tomorrow's Hero? (Hardcover)
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A wrenching account of one family's five-year battle with what
proved to be terminal liver disease, this story explores all
aspects of the difficulty in raising a family under such
conditions. Written from the point of view of the primary
caregiver, the story reveals much about the possible challenges
facing the 17,000 families now waiting for a liver transplant in
the USA. Many more face other debilitating diseases or the ravages
of age. Despite his scientific training to try to understand what
is happening, the author is crushed by the medical bureaucracy, and
the wild ups and downs of the course of the disease. Having adopted
their children, the author struggles with his fundamental values
and his conflicting responsibilities to the children and to his
ailing wife. This book should help friends and family better
understand what a stoic experience the caregiver of one seriously
ill may be going through. More importantly, it can show such a
lonely individual that what they are going through is not unique,
and that they need not be alone. As events proceed through hospice,
funeral, and grief, the author looks back on their time together
and reflects on the nature of life and love.
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