Learning Sickness: A Year with Crohn's Disease (Capital Discovery)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933102012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"An Important Book for All of Us." according to G. Thompson. This is an extraordinarily wise book. It is a delight to find that an author as young as Jim Lang can have reached conclusions about himself and about how he wants to carry on in the world; usually we look to people decades older than the author for such wisdom. The book relates the author's experiences during a single year in which hi. "He tells it like it is" according to J Bruce. James Lang reminded me of all the pain, fears and heartaches that most Crohn's patients experience in the early stages of Crohn's disease.I've lived with Crohn's and its realities over He tells it like it is James Lang reminded me of all the pain, fears and heartaches that most Crohn's patients experience in the early stages of Crohn's disease.I've lived with Crohn's and its realities over 30 years since being diagnosed in college, and Jim covers all the bases. As an English professor and author, he skillfully addresses the multiple bathro. 0 years since being diagnosed in college, and Jim covers all the bases. As an English professor and author, he skillfully addresses the multiple bathro. An eloquent, down-to-earth chronicle of chronic illness I picked up this book simply because I wanted to read a good memoir. Little did I know what else it would give me. Just a week after I ordered an advance copy of the book online, my An eloquent, down-to-earth chronicle of chronic illness Cara F. I picked up this book simply because I wanted to read a good memoir. Little did I know what else it would give me. Just a week after I ordered an advance copy of the book online, my 44 year old brother died as a result of complications from ulcerative colitis, a disease that I later learned is very similar to Crohn's disease. Reading J. An eloquent, down-to-earth chronicle of chronic illness Cara F. I picked up this book simply because I wanted to read a good memoir. Little did I know what else it would give me. Just a week after I ordered an advance copy of the book online, my 44 year old brother died as a result of complications from ulcerative colitis, a disease that I later learned is very similar to Crohn's disease. Reading J. year old brother died as a result of complications from ulcerative colitis, a disease that I later learned is very similar to Crohn's disease. Reading J
He is a regular contributor to Notre Dame Magazine and to regional parenting publications across the nation. . He writes a regular column about academic life called "The Tenure-Track Diaries" for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Lang is a professor of English at Assumption College in Worcester, MA where he teaches writi
And he came to grips with God, family, truth, and personal responsibility. He had had a history of good health despite poor dietary habits; now he was told there was little he could do to alter the course of the illness. In the first few years after diagnosis, he behaved as before, and flare-ups were mild and quickly responsive to prescribed medications. The honeymoon ended when he was 33, and the disease almost completely disabled him. All rights reserved. Donna ChavezCopyright © American Library Association. From Booklist When English professor Lang was first diagnosed with the inflammatory bowel ailment Crohn's disease, he was at an age--26--when most people feel immortal. Forced to learn what it means to
Diagnosed at the age of 26, Jim spent the next five years coming to terms with how to live with a chronic illness. 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. This book will help millions of Americans, and countless others around the globe, understand they do not suffer alone, and it will provide friends, families, and colleagues of sufferers with their first real glimpse into the toll the disease can take on their