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Waiting to Live: The Debilitating Effects of Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus

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Whether you are a patient or medical worker, or a person who has any kind of chronic illness, you must read this account of Gregg Charles Fisher's battle with Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus (CEBV), an incurable condition. He covers in frighteningly honest detail the emotional, social, financial, medical, and spiritual toll this disease causes its patients. Before their marriage, Fisher and his future wife were attending the same seminary when they contracted what they at first thought was the flu; then they noticed that, not only were they not recovering, they were each getting worse. They tried to stick out school, but were forced to drop out and both became permanently disabled. All their hopes and dreams for careers and a normal life were heartlessly destroyed when CEBV was diagnosed.

Fisher more than adequately describes the feelings of hopelessness, failure, and uselessness that a chronic illness imparts. Healthy society simply does not understand a medical condition from which the patient will never get well. As a patient of a different chronic, incurable disease with similar symptoms to CEBV (fibromyalgia including severe depression), I learned from reading Fisher's book that I had been pushing myself way too hard to keep working during recent years, finally accepted that I was disabled, stopped working, and filed for disability. The reader can't help but feel that Fisher is behind him/her 500% in the fight against their chronic illness.

In this book, Fisher describes in detail each symptom of CEBV. Physicians have also added technical information about CEBV to the book - including answers to specific common questions - making this an invaluable resource when combined with Fisher's well-articulated experiences.