Review: Eighteen Months to Live
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
"Eighteen Month's To Live" by Rachele Baker is not your typical read. The book is essentially her mother's journals with notes from the author and covers the last years before her death from mesothelioma.What powerful insight her journal entries provide into the world of dealing with cancer. It sheds light on the issues with chronic pain, with communication between doctor and patient and the lack of information available at the time.Much can be learned by her words, her feelings and emotions during this time of her life. This book should be read not only by those dealing with cancer, but by those that are having to deal with chronic pain or have a loved one with chronic pain. For those with cancer,  you will gain insight to the up and downs of cancer and it will make you grateful for all the advances and changes that have happened over the last 10 years. For those dealing with chronic pain, it will help you better understand how chronic pain feels and what it does to a person.Books such as  these, I feel should be mandatory reading for those in the profession of caring for those in pain and living with cancer, especially Doctors."Please note: I have received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review."