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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Your Choice: fight or flight and lose your life....,
This review is from: Embracing the Wolf: A Lupus Victim and Her Family Learn to Live with Chronic Disease (Hardcover)
You have a choice with Lupus...you can run from it and end up with more flares and illness than ever...Or you can embrace the wolf, ie: Lupus, and learn it's characteristics and all about it, thereby learning how to best fight it and so come out 'carefree as a butterfly'...as this author so very aptly tells us...the best way of fighting anything is to know it well and get under its' skin so to speak....by doing so ending up the winner in a fight for your life with lupus...a chronic, invasive, insidious and incurable inflammatory illness..one of the worst to enter our human condition, according to most specialists in the rheumatic disease field.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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helpful for friends of Lupus sufferers also,
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This review is from: Embracing the Wolf: A Lupus Victim and Her Family Learn to Live with Chronic Disease (Hardcover)
Joanna Permut's book Embracing The Wolf is primarily the story of how the author and her husband came to terms with her lupus, and how they both learned to accept it. That allowed the author to summon all her resources to fight the disease, and find a healthier and happier life.I don't have lupus, but someone close to me does. This book I found to be immensely helpful. The book is not just about lupus, but it's about a couple coming to terms with a disease, and two individuals coming to terms with THEIR disease in different ways. I read this book because I wanted to better understand what my friend is going through with lupus. If you have a friend with lupus, I recommend this book to you. Lupus can be so confusing to outsiders-- I'm sure many a romantic relationship and many a friendship have been strained or ended because non-sufferers don't understand the nature of the disease. If you have a friend with lupus, do yourself a favor and read this book. ken32
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful insights into family dynamics, relationship rescue.,
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This review is from: Embracing the Wolf: A Lupus Victim and Her Family Learn to Live with Chronic Disease (Hardcover)
I was so glad to find that the author went through a screaming & nasty fighting phase with her spouse, and of course how she made it beyond that. Eerily close overlay of my experiences with totally different disability (chronic fatigue). Her perspective is noticably feminine, but I had no trouble finding close identity in her, even though I am male. Her story is extremely valuable surrogate communication tool between spouses who often can not express or hear directly the attempts to communicate with each other directly. Extremely valuable even if only one spouse (either sick one or healthy one) reads this book. 5*!
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