Tracking a Shadow e-bog
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A memoir of the authors twenty-five-year, self-designed experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to meet trouble with active resistance.When novelist Edith Forbes experienced her first episode of multiple sclerosis in 1993, few treatments existed. The famously crippling disease was a medical mystery, its cause unknown and it...
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80,10 DKK
Forlag
Girl Friday Books
Udgivet
22 marts 2022
Længde
144 sider
Genrer
Autobiography: science, technology and medicine
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781954854253
A memoir of the authors twenty-five-year, self-designed experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to meet trouble with active resistance.When novelist Edith Forbes experienced her first episode of multiple sclerosis in 1993, few treatments existed. The famously crippling disease was a medical mystery, its cause unknown and its course unpredictable. The only medical advice Forbes received then was to simply live your life. She had other ideas.Forbes grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, raised by a widowed mother who met challenges head on. Besides shouldering responsibility for seven children and a cattle ranch, Forbess dynamo mother had ambitions to change the world. As a forward-thinking woman in a largely male business, she became a model of tenacity and independence for her daughter.After her MS diagnosis, Forbes turned her fear into action, immersing herself in the medical literature to search for ideas. Finding an unexpected connection between the medical information and her own knowledge of agriculture, she embarked on a self-designed experiment that continues to this day.Tracking a Shadowweaves together the story of Forbess personal twenty-five-year medical experiment with a memoir of the mother whose constant determination to look for better answers shaped the authors unique approach to her disease.