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Lean on Me: 10 Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life » (Reprint)

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Authors: Nancy Davis
ISBN-13: 9780743276535, ISBN-10: 0743276531
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Nancy Davis

Nancy Davis is the founder of the Center Without Walls, a national medical research foundation; a noted spokesperson on multiple sclerosis; and the director of the RACE to Erase MS, now in its thirteenth year. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Ken Rickel, and her five children.

Book Synopsis

At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: within a year she would be confined to her bed and, at best, able to push the buttons on her television's remote control. Rather than accept a hopeless prognosis, Nancy learned about her illness and, in turn, created a new life for herself with a new health regimen and an expanded range of therapeutic options. In Lean on Me, Nancy shares her deeply personal story and provides a step-by-step guide for taking charge of your own health care in the face of life-threatening disease. Each step offers readers the strategies and strength to carry on when they are feeling overwhelmed and the concrete tools for actively seeking and receiving the best treatment. In the face of a medical crisis, Lean on Me shows how to navigate the health care waters, find hope, take positive action, and celebrate progress -- and supplies authoritative information that can save your life or the life of a loved one.

Table of Contents

Contents

How to Use This Book

Introduction: "You're Lucky"

Step One Embrace Change

Step Two Fear Less

Step Three Never Take No for an Answer

Step Four Find Your Dr. Right

Step Five Build Your Health Team

Step Six You Are What You Ingest

Step Seven Let's Get Physical

Step Eight Explore Alternative Therapies

Step Nine Tame the Health Care Monster

Step Ten Give Back

ER Basics

Very Necessary Medical Identification Card

Electronic Health Resources

Recommended Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

About The Nancy Davis Foundation for MS

About the Author

Subjects