Review: There but for the grace...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
A story of struggle to be sure but Amy Wolf somehow retains a sense of humor and entertains when her life resembles someone jumping from ice flow to ice flow in an attempt to reach shore before ending up in an Arctic ocean. She was living the good life in Seattle with a good job and a husband who while intermittently employed must have had some good qualities. She supported him for years. The sticking point was that he insisted on adopting a child very damaged by the social services and foster care system. It turned out to be the battle of the personality disorders. While on a trip for her sanity and a job, she returns to the familiar ground of Southern California. Naturally after falling out of insurance coverage, (and this is where the husband shows his qualities because he insisted she have a mammogram)she is diagnosed with breast cancer and negotiates the chemotherapy and radiation adventures while trying to keep her daughter supported and out of harm's way. There are many moments of human comedy,similar to my experiences with a sister fighting cancer. Amy survives, in spite of or because of her tenacity to be independent. In her survival, she then realizes that the help of friends and relatives is a priceless gift.