Acquire Today In The Country Of Illness: Comfort And Advice For The Journey Crafted By Robert Lipsyte Supplied As Audiobook

first chapter is an excellent introduction to citizens who are new to the country of illness I highly recommend the book and especially the first section.
Inthe author, then, was diagnosed with testicular cancer, It would be the first of several journeys into the land which he called Malady, He had a second bout of cancer in the nineties and also accompanied his first wife on her two excursions into the world of breast cancer.
They faced their illnesses with humour “tumor humour” and learned to navigate the American healthcare system, He talked about “the dread” and I liked his reminder that when the dread strikes it is not that you are necessarily sick

again, just that you are afraid again.
He also talked about “beating chemo”, not cancer, This was a good book from someone who understands in the way that only those who have been there can.
It was at times comforting but also sad when his exwife died, I agreed with her view that people should take their cues from her if she was feeling that she was going to die, she didnt want to be told that everything would be okay and conversely, if she was making plans for ten years in the future, she didnt want to be told to be realistic.

My book

Library copy, Tom is a smart, talented loner with a chip on his shoulder and a big secret: an imaginary twin on another planet.
Eddie is Tom's opposite, a friendly, athletic kid who always looks on the good side, Tom worries sometimes: does confiding in Eddie mean he's nuts The truth is even crazier than that, Eddie and his planet are just as real as Tom and his Earth, but fiftysome years in the past.
And the twins are caught up in an alien master plan that might just mean Earthboth Earthswill be destroyed.
Switching places and identities, "slipping" between planets and across decades, a desperate escape, and the unraveling of deeper secrets leave Tom and Eddie aware of the danger they're facing and the tools they can use to overcome it.
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