Ailments category: 10428 books
When a Loved One Falls Ill
How to Be an Effective Patient Advocate
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The much-needed book for anyone with a loved one facing a serious illness. It is the book that’s a bible for how to make the potentially life-or-death decisions that every medical advocate, and every patient, must grapple with—especially now, as health care becomes ever more complicated. It is...
A Parkinson's Primer
An Indispensable Guide to Parkinson's Disease for Patients and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“John Vine says he wrote this book for people who have been newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Well, I was diagnosed 24 years ago, and I still learned something new on every page.”—Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair columnist and author of Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide
Here is the...
My Two Elaines
Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Former governor of Wisconsin Martin J. Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver,...
by Danny O'Dell
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
I am a professional strength coach and not a doctor or physical therapist. The things I say here are my own opinion and should not substitute (and is not meant as a substitute) for what your health care person is telling you.
This is a no nonsense book of exercise suggestions the author used...
Perfect Sight Without Glasses
The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Do you read imperfectly? Can you observe then that when you look at the first word, or the first letter, of a sentence you do not see best where you are looking; that you see other words, or other letters, just as well as or better than the one you are looking at? Do you observe also that the harder...
by Benjamin Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
At 16, when most juniors are worried about getting a car, getting a date, getting on the tennis team or getting into college, Benjamin Rubenstein instead got Cancer. Relying on the pop culture icon Superman as his role model, Rubenstein took on harrowing surgeries, transplants and chemical therapies...
by Terry Crawford Palardy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The true story of a middle-aged woman being unexpectedly diagnosed with a young person's disease: multiple sclerosis. The journey to diagnosis and the reality of the treatment brought a premature end to her career as a public school teacher. Life in "the sandwich generation" of adults caring...
by Kat Folland
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
A personal account of Kat Folland's experience with breast cancer treatment.
From the introduction:
I got married on April 26th, 2008. On June 21st, 2008 I found two lumps in my right breast. Mammogram, sonogram and core-needle biopsy confirmed it: I got my cancer diagnosis on July 10th,...
Washed in the Blood
The True Story About Triumph Over Remarkable Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Washed in the Blood is an inspiring story of life, loss, hope, suffering and eventually transcendence. It is equal measures heartbreaking and inspiring. However, the secret weapon is the tongue-in-cheek humor. Humor has always been a means of coping with the pain in life. In fact, humor helps convey...
by Sarah Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Just days before Sarah Ball, who had the BRCA2 gene, was attempting to save her breasts by having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed, she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer.
Talk about timing.
On top of her diagnosis, she was raising two teenage sons, living as a military wife whose husband...
Demon in My Blood
My Fight with Hep C - and a Miracle Cure (Hepatitis C)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Until recently, hepatitis C-which infects 170 million people throughout the world-was always fatal. But today there is finally a remarkable cure.
Elizabeth Rains describes how she was likely infected with hepatitis C during her wild hippie days, how she was diagnosed more than four decades...
Women Living With Multiple Sclerosis
Conversations on Living, Laughing and Coping
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1999
This is a unique guide for women dealing with the difficulties of multiple sclerosis. After she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1976, author Judith Lynn Nichols realized that people suffering from chronic illness fare better when they share experiences with people fighting the same disease....
The Pain Chronicles
Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent...
Inside Chronic Pain
An Intimate and Critical Account
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not promise...