{"product_id":"eleven-life-lessons-learned-from-als-with-letters-and-verses-from-the-valley-of-als-9781644717042","title":"Eleven Life Lessons Learned from ALS: With Letters and Verses from the Valley of ALS","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe diagnosis of ALS especially within the context of robustly healthy premorbid pre-diagnosis functioning strikes fear into the heart of not just the one so diagnosed but also family members, friends, colleagues, well-wishers, and acquaintances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the ensuing months following diagnosis, the horror, torture, and anguish of experiencing one's body degenerate, the loss of function, the helplessness, the associated indignity of not being able to fully participate in life as previously done can become likened to crawling through the valley of the shadow of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy manuscript is tripartite in format.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI titled it, \u003cem\u003eEleven Life Lessons Learned from ALS\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part, \"Eleven Life Lessons Learned from ALS,\" focuses on the challenges that come with illness and how to overcome the damaging internal dialogue that constantly strives to strip you of hope. It helps you to realize that the journey will require you traveling light, not wasting your pain and re-prioritizing your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second part, \"Letters to My Fab Four\" are thoughts, feelings, and emotions I share with my young children about various life issues such as relationships, emotional stability and happiness, success, and many other topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third part is a collection of poems about my pain, my fears and tears, hope and experiences about being on the receiving end of medical services having spent the last three decades on the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHopefully, the daily triumph of hope in the face of helplessness and hopelessness of ALS can encourage anyone facing any impossible situation to know that with God, all things are possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Covenant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644717042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Okey Nwangburuka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45169453695157,"sku":"9781644717042","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0e69d298-5c13-4370-9734-a208a8c9233e.jpg?v=1741703154","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eleven-life-lessons-learned-from-als-with-letters-and-verses-from-the-valley-of-als-9781644717042","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}