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Title: When the Road Turns: Inspirational Stories About People with MS by Russell ISBN: 1-55874-907-1 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 15 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An Upper-Middle Class Book on MS
Comment: This book was not what I expected. Many are jetsetters and world travelers with few monetary worries. When they became ill, the only new problem most all of them had was the disease. The book is about the well-off getting ill...a malpractice lawyer, FAA flight controller, a doctor, a real estate agent, a full professor and other highly paid professionals. Apparently ordinary people are not allowed, with the exception of a father who has a bio in it.
The letter "I" is featured prominently in almost every sentence of these self-bios. Perhaps Montel encouraged her to write it ? With all that said, why can't SOMEONE write about ORDINARY people ? Talk about the REAL struggle people have, losing their spouse quite often from the stress of the disease and the struggle to keep a marriage together. She could then tell the story of how the average person has turned their life around. Instead of the upper-middle class people, who can afford to do it. Statistically, since the poor and middle class people outnumber the upper-middle class, shouldn't they be the focus of the book ?
She should have read the Australian website Jooley's Joint. It has hundreds of bios written by people with the disease. These are the real realities of it that the author doesn't want to talk about, and are the rule. Gaining great success in life from getting MS is far from common, and is an oxymoron. Yet this book promotes that idea. Job loss is even more problematic than the effects of MS. As someone who has the disease, I know about this because my dream in life was theater, and that dream may never have a chance to even get started.
MS and the drugs involved with treating it, also affects short term memory. This makes any career difficult. Yet according to the author "MS is a gift" in her own words. Tell that to the unemployed, divorced people suffering with the disease all alone. The people in the UK are routinely denied the medicines they need. And the poorer people of the world who contract it, are the least able to afford it. One can tell from an author's focus about how well off they are.
Rating: 5
Summary: ...And that has made all the difference!
Comment: The sheer variety of roads traveled in this inspirational, humorous, and engaging book illustrates the difference between merely taking baby steps through life and thriving on your journey. This book introduces us to real-life people planning and achieving awesome goals--yet living very much in the moment. Their stories resound with authenticity, humor, awareness, and determination. I felt myself nodding in agreement at so many of their reactions to everyday obstacles. You certainly don't have to have MS to thoroughly enjoy this book. You only have to be human.
Rating: 5
Summary: Margot, you and your contributors are correct.
Comment: I have just finished When the Road Turns....boy, there are many inspirational stories out there....Boy, I must admit that when I was first diagnosed 14 years ago, I felt so alone. I had a variety of emotions which I had never experienced....
I can now see my emotions were not exclusive to me. For a variety of reasons, I am living well with my MS. I am very lucky.....great neurologist, great family, greater wife...
Good luck to all fellow MSer's!.. You'll love this book!...
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Title: Blindsided : Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir by Richard Cohen ISBN: 0060014091 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody by David L. Lander, Lee Montgomery ISBN: 1585420522 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Climbing Higher by Montel Williams, Lawrence Grobel ISBN: 0451211596 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Life on Cripple Creek: Essays on Living With Multiple Sclerosis by Dean Kramer ISBN: 1888799684 Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Coffee in the Cereal: The First Year with Multiple Sclerosis by Lorna J. Moorhead ISBN: 0934793077 Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing of California Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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