What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.
Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she tried to push through the searing pain, taking time off work and staying home, glued to the toilet. But when it became glaringly apparent something was wrong, Miller gave in to her family's requests and went to the hospital-and thus started a years-long personal nightmare that included procedures, misdiagnoses, and life-threatening infections. Once Miller was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn's disease, she had yet another new battle to face: accepting that she will, in truth, never get better.
Today, 3 in 5 adults in the United States suffer from a chronic ailment, whether the illness is endometriosis, IBD, IBS, Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, asthma, depression, anxiety, diabetes, or any other chronic ailment. However, despite the prevalence of these illnesses and the impact they have on just about everyone-whether the sufferer is a colleague, a loved one, or you personally-there remains an air of shame and isolation around the topic. Millions endure these diseases alone, not only physically but also emotionally, balancing the stress of relationships and work amidst the ever-looming threat of health complications.
Moving from Miller's maddening yet all too relatable experience into a deeper look at how the medical community handles chronic illness, What Doesn't Kill You exposes the realities of what it means to accept a lifetime diagnosis, pushing past the good, the bad, and the ugly to offer wisdom and solidarity for those trying to make sense of it all.
*This audiobook includes a PDF of resources from the appendix of the book.
Customer Reviews
Great book up-to chapter 14
This book is excellent and so helpful. Until the talk about our Great President who fought for vaccines and built a ship to NY to help all; which was unfortunately not used for safety. Rather the governors of NJ and NY killed thousands by sending Covid patients ...not to the ship built by Trump but nursing homes. I stopped reading at the unkind and untrue statements regarding these issues which are a huge part of my life and illness.
Biden won due to unfair and catastrophic measures which as someone working polls for years was horrified about.
As a challenger you would know... the media lies and suppression of truth like fake Russia collusion and millions of other proven lies has taken a toll on our countrymen...
loving joblessness homelessness and inflation that effects every low income family more than not is nothing less than criminal behavior.