Learning Sickness A Year with Crohn's Disease

Name: Learning Sickness A Year with Crohn's Disease
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ISBN: 9781933102016

ISBN-10: 1933102012

ISBN-13: 9781933102016

Edition: N/A

Authors: James M. Lang

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There are many books about illness, but very few writers convey the courage and hope of battling a chronic illness as eloquently as Jim Lang. Learning Sickness is the compelling narrative of Jim's battle with Crohn's Disease. Diagnosed at the age of 26, Jim spent the next five years coming to terms with how to live with a chronic illness. During that time he fathered two children, earned a Ph.D., accepted his first teaching position, and launched a writing career. Jim Lang provides an absolutely unflinching look at the way the disease can penetrate into every aspect of a person's life: physical, emotional, and spiritual. He tackles the most sensitive areas of the disease with grace and…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Capital Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Preface
Learning To Be Ill
A Life of Illness: Learning About Disease
Living with Uncertainty: Learning About Doctors and Medicine
Disease's Routines: Learning About Daily Life
Small Miracles: Learning About God
The Hospital: Learning to Hit the Bottom of the Well
The Imagination of Disease: Learning to Be a Father
Carrying Our Secret Pains: Learning to Tell My Story
Time Passes: Learning to Be Healthy
Learning Hope, Caution, and Balance
A Return to Daily Life Epilogue
The Cardinal Rules for Crohn's Disease
Resources for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
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