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Surprise! IÂ’m still not dead! Okay, sure, I was born with an incurable genetic disease and, yes, I have faced terminal illness two times but Â… here I am! And IÂ’m ready to speak!

I’ve now been navigating the Western medical maze for over three decades Along the way, I’ve had to learn some pretty painful lessons about how to advocate for myself and what happens if I don’t. I also know how scary and disorienting illness can be—I have a lot to say about finding peace and acceptance, no matter what your diagnosis.

I offer you my advice, my humor and my personal journals as a window into the often quiet world of living with illness. Whether you are a patient, family member or medical professional, chances are you will find something between these pages that you never knew.

Medicine is a complicated maze. The time has come for a medical revolution—let’s do it together!

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A forum for writings from the deep end of the pool..
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Preshrunk Ponderings and Rumpled Rememberings is a collection of folksy essays on low-cost housing and its relationship to homelessness, on public transportation and its relationships to independence of movement and quality of life, on artifice and institutionalism in higher education, and on the tinkering mind and creative science. The author draws from his experiences in living life fully from the low-end of the economic scale and offers uncommon perspectives on what readers may find common all around us. Reasonable analyses of problems are intended less toward offerings of solutions than to provoke thought and stimulate discussion. There are no overt polemics or hard-line politics that might stir the dental profession to action from widespread gnashing of teeth. These are just amiable discourses on a few diverse topics to animate some dimension to the prevailing flat dullness and torpor. They are easy reading for a few lazy hours..
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Often the lofty instructions from church leaders are hard for the everyday person to understand What would it be like to have them speak to us about real life issues in a language we can understand? In this book, we have a renowned Bishop sharing his intimate thoughts and ponderings on over 180 topics like: Gods Grammar of Love, Suffering, Tolerance, What it means to be Christian, Fault-Finding, Forgiveness, Laughter, Living with Uncertainty, and the Larger Questions of life. On the lighter side, Pennel ponders topics like: Raymond, Rudolph, and Otie, Kitchen-Table Friendship, The Big Hole, The Milk Machine, What About Elvis? Reeboks and a Real Friend, Busy Whittlin, Reeces Timing, and Cornbread, Catfish, and Christianity! Once drawn in to the story, Pennel invites the reader to join him in pondering the topics deeper meaning. In so doing, the reader is reminded of the things in life worth pondering..
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Notable scholars explore James Rosenau's postinternational paradigm--an alternative view to traditional international relations

Bringing together notable authors to explore James Rosenau's postinternational paradigm, this book makes an important contribution to the study of international relations theory. It includes a concluding chapter by Rosenau himself which responds individually and collectively to his critics..
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Whether you have a slight addiction to caffeine, an irrational hatred of supermodels, or enough training in domestic peacekeeping to secure federal employment, Shana McLean Moore has the antidote to your pain. She knows you'll find it at the bottom of a hot cup of coffee, savored while taking a few minutes out of your selfless day to indulge in some of her caffeinated ponderings.

Shana's look at life, laughter and lattes is sure to leave you feeling tickled, validated and ready for a second cup...Once you're at the site, be sure to sign up for her Fresh Brew by becoming a subscriber to her popular online newsletter.

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This book represents six years in the life of one woman diagnosed with Parkinson's disease Her struggles against the possible effects of her tremor, her humanity in the face of a devastating diagnosis, and her sense of humour in the midst of it all will echo in the souls of middle aged readers everywhere. Each chapter reveals its own unique Reflections. Each one is touching and real. Those who sit down with this collection will laugh, cry, identify and question. This collection stands firm as a model to others. It shows how one person can achieve her goal, and share her philosophy, even in very challenging circumstances.
Mirrors of my Soul contains 129 pages with an introduction by the poet. There is one Signature poem, and each chapter is entitled Reflections. There are Reflections on the Soul, Reflections on Middle Age, Reflections on Animals, Reflections on Illness, Reflections on Reflections, Reflections on Revelations, Reflections on Nature, Reflections on Relationships, Reflections on Whimsy and Reflections on Life. Within each chapter lie different and unusual viewpoints. For example, in the Chapter entitled Reflections on page 23, Take Me as I Am speaks to women everywhere.

I keep my sweet secrets inside my heart
Until one unique mind sets itself apart.
Can she accept what's under the mask?
Her simple reply: "Did I even need to ask?"

In the sweet but powerful poem entitled The Elephant Danced, the power of optimism and delight in one's own capabilities is simply and delightfully expressed.

The ballet teacher who had been prejudiced against the elephant's size now sees the grace in his movements and the error of her ways. She makes amends.

"You'll be my star pupil; you're one of a kind."
And the elephant smiled , for she had been blind.

Ellen Alban's views are her own, unique, loving, and heartfelt. Readers will laugh and cry while enjoying this fine anthology..
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