List Books » Lean on Me: 10 Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life
Authors: Nancy Davis
ISBN-13: 9780743276535, ISBN-10: 0743276531
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: Reprint
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.
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.
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