In Sickness and In Health: God's Continuous Miracles describes the tears, fears, challenges, and accomplishments of living with Systemic Lupus and Chronic Kidney Disease. The author describes how hard he had to fight to stay alive for more than 39 years. This disease affected not only his mind, body, soul, and spirit but also his family. This story intends to inspire, uplift, and encourage, especially those who may be going through similar experiences. The author proclaims he is a living w...

Rocky Lang and Dr. Erick Montero offer up more than 200 firsthand accounts of emergency room dramas along with bizarre and insightful medical facts and stats inside Confessions of Emergency Room Doctors. Sample entries include:* Strange Disease Fact: A melcryptovestimentaphilliac is someone who compulsively steals ladies underwear.* Dr. Brown, Chicago Hospital, writes: "A woman came into the ER, ready to give birth, followed by her husband and about ten kids. Their...

An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeonDr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making of a surgeon who is also a wife and mother. In this powerful and moving memoir...

Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for over 50 Years: A Diagnosis after 25 Years, is an autobiography of Laurice B. Karrell. This book, which is divided into decades, delineates her multiple sclerosis (MS) exacerbations beginning with her first major symptom in 1958. It then goes on to describe her futile search over many years for a diagnosis. It finally culminates with a diagnosis twenty-five years later when sophisticated medical equipment becomes available. This book is intended for b...

I find it ironic that the types of books I like to read and movies I like to watch are about people who have been faced with less than favorable odds and yet were able to beat those odds. Little did I know that my life was about to become one of these stories. On March 5, 2010, I was admitted to the hospital with influenza A, pneumonia that quickly went into Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. I was given less than one percent chance of survival. At first I wasnt too keen on the idea of w...

Doctors work in life-and-death situations every day. But what happens when they encounter something even they can't explain scientifically? Dreams foretelling future events, apparitions and other miraculous experiences fill this book, as practicing doctors recount the most unusual moments of their careers. Meant to awe, instruct and inspire, these tales will convince even the harshest skeptic that there are things beyond this physical world and that sometimes, all we need to do is believe....

Suzanne Zaccone, one of Americas most influential entrepreneurs, strips naked with a feisty and clear-eyed story of how she loses her breast and fights to get it back. Zaccone writes with an iron grip on the details, and reveals the secrets of cancer patients that are taboo and lost in translation. A Random Interruption is equipped with a dictionary of the language of breast cancer and a list of provocative questions to ask the doctors. World-renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr....

"For years, I was haunted by eye floaters—those elusive, shadowy specks that danced across my vision, mocking my attempts to ignore them. It was maddening, especially when I learned that for many, floaters are a fleeting nuisance, gone in a month or two. Not for me. I endured them for over four years, with no relief in sight. Each passing month amplified my frustration, and my irritability grew in tandem.Yet, I clung to hope. As an eternal optimist, I even reserved the domain name ...

Yes, you can! You can stop smoking in 7 days - You can kick that nasty, toxic expensive habit in 7 days or less- stop smoking in 7days -NO patches, NO prescriptions to buy, no weight gain - Why not try it? You have nothing to lose but everything to gain...To stop smoking is certainly one of the most difficult tasks anyone can do in their life.If you are a smoker and truly want to quit, you probably have attempted to kick the habit several times already. Despite your previous...

It was on May 2007, that she heard these dreaded words, You have breast cancer. With a blink of an eye, her world turned upside down. She became confused, dazed and was in a state of denial. She told herself, Get a grip of yourself. It is not the end of the world! What happened next were the agonizing decisions. Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! Decisions that were made without much thought! Do you want to be in the same predicament? Of course not! This journal showed how the author overcam...

The cottage on the lake is always the same, but Luke is changing. At thirteen he’s excited. At fourteen he’s cool. At fifteen he’s pissed off. At sixteen he’s in love.Through four summers’ worth of trips to the emergency room, campfires and house fires, parties and feuds with neighbors, Luke is doing his best to navigate life. He makes discoveries, makes mistakes, freaks out, and comes to see things in a new light.Brent Runyon has crafted a remarkable portrait of a boy at f...

Is breast cancer a laughing matter? Jill Foer Hirsch tells us that while it might not be true for everyone, she couldn't help but laugh at the unexpected, bizarre and downright hilarious experiences she had while working her way through a mastectomy, chemotherapy and reconstruction surgery. What's so funny about breast cancer? Well, there was the breast implant that mysteriously migrated to her armpit, her inspired breast cancer haikus and advice on how to properly accessorize a hospital g...