Dimensions
140 x 214 x 23mm
This is the must-have book for anyone diagnosed with multiple-sclerosis or any life-limiting or life-threatening disease. It is both a deeply personal, inspirational statement from a person living with a life-threatening chronic illness who is living a happily busy, normal life and a step-by-step guide to empower anyone in taking charger of his or her own health care. Even if you and everyone you know are in perfect health, this is a guide to help you make important life decisions and dealing with the bewildering complexity of today's medical services.
At the young age of thirty-three Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: 'There is nothing you can do. Go home and go to bed... forever.' Nancy left her doctor's office in shock and despair. How could it be that within a year she would be confined to her bed, at best able to manage pressing the buttons on her television's remote control? She had plans. She had a family. She had a life that she desperately wanted to live.
Nancy made a choice. Rather than accepting this hopeless prognosis, she began to educate herself, to create an effective health regimen, and to expand her range of therapeutic options. She literally reinvented her prognosis and in doing so created a healthy new life.
'Lean on Me' couples Nancy's deeply personal story with a step-by-step guide to empower anyone to take charge of his or her own health care in the face of any life-threatening disease.
1. Embrace Change
2. Fear Less
3. Never Take No for an Answer
4. Find Your Dr. Right
5. Build Your Health Team
6. You Are What You Ingest
7. Let's Get Physical
8. Explore Alternative Therapies
9. Tame the Health Care Monster
10. Give Back
Life-altering diseases often come with a list of 'can't's', 'won't's' and 'no's'. Nancy teaches readers how to move beyond these negative concepts and focus on what they personally can and will do to improve their health. Each of these steps offers readers the strategies and strength to carry on when they're feeling overwhelmed, and the concrete tools for actively seeking and receiving the best treatment.
'Lean on Me' is the health advocate that each of us needs to adopt in the face of a medical crisis. It is a book that shows how to navigate the health care waters, to find hope, to take positive action, and to celebrate progress -- all kinds, every day. It provides the knowledge and power to make good choices. It supplies the authoritative information that can enable you to save your life or the life of a loved one.
