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This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying ManNATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. i can't make you feel what it's like to be a young, dumb, na ve thirty year old sitting in the back of a walk in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. i can't make you feel what it's like to be a young, dumb, na ve thirty-year-old sitting in the back of a walk-in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more than i can show you what it feels like to have a husband or father or child who's dying and knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it. i can only describe to you how i feel today. angry. at peace. scared. grateful. a giant, spiky, flowering heart-shaped bouquet of contradictions. Layton Reid was a globe-trotting, risk-taking, sunshine-addicted bachelor--then came a melanoma diagnosis. Cancer startled him out of his arrested development--he returned home to Halifax to work as a wedding photographer--and remission launched him into a new, passionate life as a husband and father-to-be. When the melanoma returned, now at Stage IV, Layton and his family put all their stock into a punishing alternative therapy, hoping for a cure. This Is Not the End of Me recounts Layton's three-year journey as he tried desperately to stay alive for his young son, Finn, and then found purpose in preparing Finn for a world without him. With incredible intimacy, grit, and empathy, reporter Dakshana Bascaramurty casts an unsentimental eye on who her good friend was: his effervescence, his twisted wit, his anger, his vulnerability. Interweaving Layton's own reflections--his diaries written for Finn, his letters to his wife, Candace, and his public journal--she paints a keenly observed portrait of Layton's remarkable evolution. In detailing the ugly, surprising, and occasionally funny ways in which Layton and his family faced his mortality, the book offers an unflinching look at how a person dies, and how we might build a legacy in our information-saturated age. Powerful and unvarnished, This is Not the End of Me is about someone who didn't get a very happy ending, but learned to squeeze as much life as possible from his final days.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 08/18/2020
ISBN: 9780771009631
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
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Perfect for really learning what test is what. What it means to have high levels and low levels. I love this book.
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Excellent reference
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Small and compact
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I didn’t expect it to be small - which is better, I think. Should have read the info. Photo in comparison with the 2024 Nursing Drug Handbook I recently purchased.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2023
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Damaged
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I’m not happy about the ripped book. Other parts of the book is ok.
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Dirty and shabby
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It's dirty and a bit shabby. The book doesn't have any packaging. Looks like someone has used it before.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023