On Living While Dying: A Decade with ALS - Softcover

Beerbower, John E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1088085652 ISBN 13: 9781088085653

Publisher: IngramSpark, 2023

Synopsis

Sometime during 2013, I became aware of my first symptoms.

I was diagnosed in March 2015. I rushed to finish the book I was writing since my retirement in March 2011. Under a perceived shortage of time, I decided to self-publish. The book was out by mid-2016. By early 2018, I was getting restless. I started writing again. Naturally, much of what I wrote concerned my experiences with ALS. Having learned how to publish a book, I indulged myself. I have now three more. While reading posts from sufferers of ALS, whether patients or care-givers, I concluded that there might be benefits if I made my writings more accessible. So, I gathered the relevant chapters from the three books, added a preamble and some final notes and went "to press".

For a small but very special audience.

May some find help.



About this title

About the Author

John majored in economics at Amherst College, receiving a BA in 1970. He received his JD from The Harvard Law School in 1973. Following law school, he did post-graduate research at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. In late 1974, John began a 37-year career as a commercial litigator with a major law firm in New York City. He retired from the practice of law in 2011, after which he relocated to a small village outside of Cambridge, England. In March 2015, John was diagnosed with ALS (motor neuron disease). As a result, he decided to return to the U.S., to live in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, with his daughter Sarah. His son John Eliot and daughter-in-law Megan, with his two grandchildren Hannah and Jeffrey, live across the street. Confined to a wheelchair since 2018, he has been writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: IngramSpark
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1088085652
• ISBN 13: 9781088085653
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 108