Something More Than Hope/Something More Than Everything | Free Book
surviving despite the odds, thriving because of them
Written in the spirit of Norman Cousins' "Anatomy of an Illness" and
Jill Bolte Taylor's "My Stroke of Insight", this book will forever
change your thinking about the depth of our capacity to heal and heal
one another. When Diana Lindsay couldn't blow out the candles on her
birthday cake, she never imagined that it was because of stage IV lung
cancer. Given a prognosis of just three to six months to live, she
also never imagined that eight years later she and her husband would
be sharing their highly improbable and unexpectedly joyful story of
how they returned her to complete health. In 2006, the odds of Diana
living long enough to see her newborn granddaughter enter kindergarten
were one in a hundred. "How do I make it into the 1% Club?" she asks
herself and steps into an assumption-challenging alternate future with
her husband Kelly. Recognizing she will have to be willing to try what
99% wouldn't, Diana relentlessly pursues the latest medical
technologies and opens her mind to a range of integrative therapies,
including medical Qigong and Reiki. But it is her creativity with the
ancient protocols of love, joy, and wonder---and how she and Kelly
turn them into a Love-In, a Gratitude Tour, and a 48-state road trip
in a Prius with a queen-size mattress in the back---that will surprise
and delight you. This is not cancer-as-you-know-it. Despite the
copious research Diana clearly presents, she recognizes that the
longer the odds of survival, the shorter the medical evidence on which
to base decisions. So she learns to "Skype" her own cells, and with
astonishing clarity and prescience they guide her through medical and
life decisions that bring her to much more than health. With
unwavering love and often humorous storytelling, Kelly asks his own
questions as Diana's primary caretender: "What do I do now? What can I
do now? Can I win a bare-knuckles fight with my results-oriented mind
to embrace the unknown? Can I cross the bridge to Woo-Woo without
burning it?" Cross it he does, even learning to exhort his own cells
when he too is diagnosed with cancer years later. This two-in-one
book, combining both the patient and caretender perspectives, is a
story of spirit and creativity. It offers any of us the encouragement
to take advantage of something more than hope in the face of life
crisis as well as the possibility of giving up---and astonishingly
getting back---something more than everything. Advance
Praise---------------------------------------------- "A remarkable
story that deserves to be told and re-told." --Elizabeth George, New
York Times best-selling author "Diana and Kelly Lindsay have written a
remarkable account of Diana's exceptional recovery from stage 4 lung
cancer. They faced daunting odds with fierce intentionality and a wise
integration of conventional and integrative therapies. Above all, they
understand the healing power of love. A beautiful story, well told."
--Michael Lerner, President and Founder, Commonweal, author of Choices
in Healing "Diana and Kelly's moving journeys in the face of cancer
affirm that miracles are made - not with blueprints or instruction
manuals, but with courage, intuition, intelligence and abiding love.
The honesty, humor and insights embedded in each chapter are unique to
them as patient and caretaker, wife and husband, yet universal in
their depiction of the human heart as it opens and closes and opens
again to the onslaught of life in all its rawness and beauty. For
those with a life-threatening illness and their loved ones, this book
is like a dear friend at your side, reminding you that you are not
alone, whatever your path may be." --Elise Miller, Med, Director,
Collaborative on Health and the Environment
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