The Story Behind This Book

I almost died of a benign brain tumor in 2005. Emergency surgery saved me, but vision experts predicted I'd remain blind forever. "Hold that thought," I said, as I walked out the door to the beautiful future I envisioned. Within a year I proved doctors wrong when I recovered my sight against BIG odds. I wrote a 2007 print-edition book about to cope with medical adversity during the recovery period. Entitled "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and Cope with a Medical Challenge" (I'm no genius with short book titles!), it sold worldwide and received praise from medical and mental health experts. Some of my readers are now my E-mail pen pals.

The financial fallout of 2008 and my certification in counseling skills necessitated an updated sequel for the book. "EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" is a necessary update for patients in a financially and emotionally devastated world. It tells how doctors jaws have dropped all around me as they observe my health rapidly improving on my personal empowerment plan. The prescription for my eyewear drops so fast and so often that eyecare specialists began crying in joy with me during vision checkups! My can-do coping strategies help in other ways. Medical tests prove that my overall health, muscles and bones are in the condition of woman half my age. I'm younger than my birth certificate!!! Medical and mental health professionals are studying my method and recommend reading my books! Not bad for a woman who almost died of a benign brain tumor of all things!

I wrote the 2007 first edition of "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To" as a form of emotional and physical therapy while regaining my sight and physical strength after that devastating benign brain tumor almost killed me in 2005. Shy of the Digital Age, I took my some of my own coping advice, overcame my misgivings, and joined the late 20th century by publishing the 2009 sequel as an E-book.

"It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" validates your need to cry as a necessary first step in coping with devastating news. Then it teaches you how to manage with the mess that medical treatment, papers and appointments can make of your life. From good food to good books and funny stories from famous historical figures, the manuscript covers how to pack for hospital stays to how to prevent medication mistakes and lots of necessary tactics in between.

Mimic me. Cope with medical and emotional adversity regarding your diagnosis. Restore and maintain your human dignity, learn to laugh again, find out how to get what you need, and save money while you do it all. The Global Resources section informs you about free and low-cost solutions for quality medical care. "It's MY Crisis And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" costs less that $10.00.