Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor - Softcover

Harpham, Wendy Schlessel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393329054 ISBN 13: 9780393329056

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

Award-winning author Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD, offers her program to getting good care and finding happiness when you are sick. Having coined the term "Healthy Survivor" while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to simultaneously do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest. Harpham opens our eyes to the opportunities for happiness in life despite medical problems and even because of illness.

About this title

Review:

A sensible and realistic compendium of techniques that will help survivors cope with serious illness while embracing times of happiness.

Speaks directly to the power of knowledge, enabling those with chronic, life-threatening, even terminal, illnesses to feel and exercise the heady freedom of informed choices.

Synopsis:

A physician and cancer survivor outlines a program for obtaining good care and finding happiness during illness, explaining how to make informed decisions and maintain an optimistic outlook in spite of medical challenges. Reprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393329054
• ISBN 13: 9780393329056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400