Post by Christy The Admin on Jan 26, 2007 9:59:16 GMT -5
This is going to be a different kind of review, because it has nothing to do with entertainment and more to do with life in general.
Hope Springs Eternal: Surviving a Chronic Disease
by David Atkinson
This is not a book I would have ever read ordinarily and it may only appeal to a tiny percentage of you, but I thought I'd mention it. David Atkinson wrote this book after trying a variety of methods that managed to either greatly slow or reverse his symptoms of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). He wrote it to give hope to other ALS patients that while you may not live the 40-50 more years you'd planned, ALS doesn't have to be the automatic death sentence that the Mayo Clinic says it is.
Now, I don't have ALS so I can't personally say if any of his methods worked for ME, but if the statement is true that healing is mostly mental, or at least partly, then I can already attest to this book's impact. The person I bought it for had an immediate mental turn-around after reading it, and has now realized that there are things she can do that won't take up all of her free time.
The books she'd read about nutrition made it pretty clear that she'd have to spend all her time fixing meals and growing things and in the event that something doesn't work, she'd like to enjoy as much free time as possible. Atkinson's book gives a list of ideas that can be done that won't take up all of her time, and she seems newly inspired. She's even leaving the house more.
That by itself is worth way more than the $8 I paid for the book.
So if you know anyone who's been diagnosed with ALS, I would highly recommend this book. There's nothing quite like hope when you wake up in the morning.
Hope Springs Eternal: Surviving a Chronic Disease
by David Atkinson
This is not a book I would have ever read ordinarily and it may only appeal to a tiny percentage of you, but I thought I'd mention it. David Atkinson wrote this book after trying a variety of methods that managed to either greatly slow or reverse his symptoms of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). He wrote it to give hope to other ALS patients that while you may not live the 40-50 more years you'd planned, ALS doesn't have to be the automatic death sentence that the Mayo Clinic says it is.
Now, I don't have ALS so I can't personally say if any of his methods worked for ME, but if the statement is true that healing is mostly mental, or at least partly, then I can already attest to this book's impact. The person I bought it for had an immediate mental turn-around after reading it, and has now realized that there are things she can do that won't take up all of her free time.
The books she'd read about nutrition made it pretty clear that she'd have to spend all her time fixing meals and growing things and in the event that something doesn't work, she'd like to enjoy as much free time as possible. Atkinson's book gives a list of ideas that can be done that won't take up all of her time, and she seems newly inspired. She's even leaving the house more.
That by itself is worth way more than the $8 I paid for the book.
So if you know anyone who's been diagnosed with ALS, I would highly recommend this book. There's nothing quite like hope when you wake up in the morning.