{"product_id":"an-ordinary-day-just-shorter-a-meditation-of-a-deathwatcher-9798318850462","title":"An Ordinary Day Just Shorter: A Meditation of a DeathWatcher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cancer doctor loses his wife to the disease he treats.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou have asked the questions that keep you awake at night. What is the point of it all? Why do we suffer? How do we make peace with death when it circles closer, taking the people we love most? You have searched for honest answers, not clinical detachment or hollow platitudes, but the hard-won truths that only come from a life lived in the space between healing and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Day Just Shorter: A Meditation of a DeathWatcher \u003c\/em\u003eis the deeply personal reflection of Frank J. Brescia, MD, a medical oncologist with over fifty years spent caring for women with breast cancer. When his wife Jane died of the very disease he had dedicated his career to fighting, Dr. Brescia was forced to confront the collision of his professional world and his most devastating personal grief. Drawing on a lifetime of memories, from a Catholic boyhood in the Bronx to the foxholes of Vietnam, from the joy of fathering eight children to the loneliness of widowhood and the grace of love renewed, he offers a meditation on mortality, purpose, faith, and what it truly means to touch another human being in pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside these pages, you will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- A physician's unflinching reckoning with the limits of medicine, war, and belief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Hard-earned wisdom on love, loss, and the priorities that define a meaningful life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- A compassionate companion for anyone facing grief, illness, or the universal mystery of why we are here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palmetto Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798318850462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Frank J. Brescia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459207291061,"sku":"9798318850462","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798318850462.jpg?v=1791297831","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/an-ordinary-day-just-shorter-a-meditation-of-a-deathwatcher-9798318850462","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}