Backbone (eBook)

Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One

Karen Duffy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
252 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-796-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain. For two decades, Karen Duffy New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy has sarcoidosis, a disorder that causes the growth of inflammatory cells on different organs of the body. In her case, her sarcoidosis is located in her brain, causing her unimaginable pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, certified recreational therapist, and hospital chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain and reinforces the sentiment that "e;circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of circumstances"e; (Sir John Wheeler Bennet). More than one-third of the US populationnearly 113 million Americansis currently living with chronic pain, while another 133 million Americans live with some form of chronic illness. Half of the US population lives with the challenges of these invisible illnesses where their symptoms are not always obvious to the casual observer. Addressing a country ravaged by both chronic pain and opioid addiction, Backbone offers a salve of self-sufficiency, spunk, and perseverance. With a light tone, deft wordplay, and interactive gems such as the Bill Murray Pain Scale, Mastectomy Paper Dolls, and a crown to wear just for getting out of bed, Duffy's seriousand seriously funnybook is for the massive population living with chronic pain who are eager to be understood and helped, and sends the message that despite the pain, there is a way to a good life.

Autor

Karen Duffy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Glamour, Esquire, and the New York Daily News, and has played parts in the movies Dumb and Dumber, Celebrity, and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. She was also the face for Revlon's "Charlie’s Girl" and a VJ for MTV. She resides in New York with her husband and son.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
• Schlagworte: Autobiography • Bill Murray • Blank Check • chaplains • chronic pain • coping methods • Disease • doctors • duff • Dumb and Dumber • easy read • family life • Fitness • flanuer • George Clooney • Health • Hockey • hockey mom • Hospitals • Humor • Illness • invisible illness • James Bond • Karen Duffy • light-hearted • living well • living with pain • managing pain • Mastectomy • Memoir • MTV • nurological illness • nurses • opioids • Pain • pain management • pain meds • patient advocate • Revlon • Sarcoidosis • Self-Help • self-motivation • Strength • Teddy Roosevelt • The Fantastic Mr. Fox • Therapists • therapy • Walking • Wellness • Wes Anderson
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-796-9 / 1628727969
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-796-8 / 9781628727968