Embracing the wolf : a lupus victim and her family learn to live with chronic disease
Title | Embracing the wolf : a lupus victim and her family learn to live with chronic disease PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Baumer Permut |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780897830539 |
Travels with the Wolf
Title | Travels with the Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Anne Goldstein |
Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780814208403 |
The Lupus Foundation of America estimates that between .5 and 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that can attack any part of the body. The elusive nature of the illness often becomes a source of overwhelming helplessness and frustration to its victims, their loved ones, and the physicians who treat it. Narrated through both poetry and prose, Travels with the Wolf is an autobiographical account of Melissa Anne Goldstein's experiences with lupus. It is her story of becoming a young woman, writer, and teacher in the presence of severe, often debilitating disease. It is an exploration of her relationships with her family and friends as the illness steals into their lives, and the record of her struggle to maintain her independence and identity despite disease. Finally, it is an author's journey to find her spiritual core. This book is not just about lupus. Goldstein uses her experience of the illness as well as sociological, literary, and historical research, to portray and understand the dilemmas faced by the chronically ill person in our society. In her conclusion, she calls for reform of today's health care system, which does not meet the needs of the chronically ill or their physicians.
Embracing the Wolf
Title | Embracing the Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Baumer Permut |
Publisher | Cherokee Publishing Company (GA) |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A Lupus victim and her family learn to live with chronic disease.
LIVING WITH THE WOLF and Surviving Lupus
Title | LIVING WITH THE WOLF and Surviving Lupus PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Shaw-Stabler |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2010-07-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1453504567 |
“This book from Liz Shaw-Stabler brings passion, guidance, and hope to the struggle of people suffering from chronic illnesses. Liz has spent decades battling systemic lupus, even enduring kidney failure and the challenges of living each day after day when she feels ill and then the near-miracle of kidney transplant—and all of the effects on the living of life. Liz is greatly admired by all who know her—a fighter, dedicated not only to personally overcoming illness, but also to bringing health care to people of color—a group that SLE strikes particularly hard. Shaw-Stabler is a professional educator and a passionate advocate, devoting hundreds of hours to founding LupusCare, which provides education and group meetings for a community in Los Angeles that is rich in African American and Latino families—a community that needs much better access to health care and health education. This book is another step in the battle. Read it to understand, to learn, and to discover how one person can influence the battle for personal and public health. Finally, read it to be inspired and to be moved to action. This book and its author are national treasures”—Bevra H Hahn, MD Professor of Medicine Chief of Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Great Admirer of Liz Stabler-Shaw Los Angeles, California, June 2010. “Lupus is a life-altering experience and wisdom provided our teachers and mentors can be enabling and empowering. Liz Shaw-Stabler has helped hundreds of women with her reassuring advice”—Daniel J. Wallace, MD, FACP, FACR Chief of Rheumatology at Cedares-Sinai Medical Center Liz Shaw-Stabler was born in East Texas and received her undergraduate degree from Prairie View A and M University. She moved to Chicago, Illinois, and began her career immediately after graduation. After living in Chicago for a few years, teaching high school, acquiring a Master’s Degree and doing freelance modeling, she slowed down long enough to get married. She is the mother of one daughter who resides in Chicago. Liz now lives with her husband, Jay, in Inglewood, California, where she became the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Lupus Care Incorporated and organization that advocates for under-served lupus patients. Liz is a thirty-year lupus patient and has suffered many life-threatening illnesses but continued to believe that she was created to do something much bigger than her illness.
Flannery O'Connor
Title | Flannery O'Connor PDF eBook |
Author | R. Neil Scott |
Publisher | Timberlane Books |
Pages | 1098 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780971542808 |
In Her Own Time
Title | In Her Own Time PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne Stevenson Moessner |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2000-05-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781451410822 |
Challenging much in contemporary developmental theory, this book sheds new light on developmental themes, passages, and issues in the lives of women from the perspective of pastoral care. In Her Own Time provides a much-needed framework for the pastoral care of women.
Everything You Need to Know About Lupus
Title | Everything You Need to Know About Lupus PDF eBook |
Author | André Maraux |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1999-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780823932887 |
Explains what lupus is, how it is diagnosed and treated, and its effect on a person's life.