In Sickness and in Health: One Woman's Story of Love, Loss, and Healing [Paperback]

Gail Lynch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 13, 2001

In this well-crafted memoir, a woman recounts her husband's battle with terminal brain cancer.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A glimpse into the most demanding and painful aspects of life: dying, death, and living life to its fullest." -- Dennis Massler, MD, pyschiatrist and member of the palliative care committee, St. Barnabas Medical Center

"Reminds you what is really important in life and calls to mind the enduring strength found in ordinary people." -- Elizabeth M. Norman, author of "We Band of Angels : The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese"

"You won't be able to put this book down and you won't ever forget it either." -- Ellen Galinsky, author of "Ask the Children: The Breakthrough Study of How to Succeed at Work and Parenting"

About the Author

Gail Lynch is a member of the National Association for Social Workers and the widow of a brain cancer patient. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, near Newark.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Fairview Press (December 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577491130
• ISBN-13: 978-1577491132
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,004,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading for Those Dealing with a Terminal Illness, January 29, 2004

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Dr. Russ Buenteo, Director of Community Affai... (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Sickness and in Health: One Woman's Story of Love, Loss, and Healing (Paperback)

An excellent memoir that is both refreshing and helpful for those people who are experiencing the death of a loved one from a terminal illness. There is no glossing over the author's feelings-they are raw, real, and significant. The beauty of the book is that it provides a person's real experience, not a theoretical experience. More importantly, it explains a person's grief, and the realization that people do survive the pain. This book is highly recommended.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Nightmare's Humanity, June 4, 2002

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Catherine I Katz (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Sickness and in Health: One Woman's Story of Love, Loss, and Healing (Paperback)

I've just finished my second reading of "In Sickness & In Health," and wanted to express to the author, Gail Lynch, my sadness for the loss of such a wonderful partnership, and my appreciation for the forthrightness with which she shares such intimate and moving details of Bob's final struggle, and her own struggle, and the struggles of their families. Her straightforward narrative offers the reader familiar yet bizarre scenes in a way that lets the reader bring her own emotional life to the account. I can imagine that this book will help many readers find the humanity and sweetness in the nightmare.

I think writing this book must have taken a lot of courage. I look forward to sharing it with my colleagues.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Woman's Story of Love, Loss and Healing, April 4, 2002

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SUSAN BOHNEN (Hendersonville, N.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Sickness and in Health: One Woman's Story of Love, Loss, and Healing (Paperback)

This is a book you can't put dowm until you've read the last page. The true story of a woman's journey with her beloved husband through the medical maze of trying to conquor brain concer. The aability of the quthor's strengh to head after this trauma is inspiring to us all.