The marvelous transformation
Subtitle: living well with autoimmune disease
By: Emily A. Filmore
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781937612870
Subjects: Autoimmune diseases; Alternative treatment; Self-care, Health; Immune system
Description: "More than eighty health conditions are caused by autoimmune disease, with symptoms ranging from occasionally uncomfortable to debilitating or life-threatening. Emily Filmore has lived with autoimmune disease for over two decades. She shares her own journey with candor, warmth, and humor, alternating between triumphs and heartbreaking setbacks, and offering hard-won lessons on how to choose and manage you doctors; surviving your first diagnosis; managing depression and helplessness; letting go of body image; thriving in your marriage; and being the parent you've always wanted to be--despite your disease"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210).
Table of contents: title: You can heal your disease and it can heal you; title: Diagnosis: shifting realities; title: Pigtails and knobby knees: learning to overcome; title: I am so scared: why Dr. Smartphone is not your friend; title: The life cycle of a doctor; title: The ups and downs; title: I am a cartoon character; title: Love handles, moon face, and body image; title: Adults say the darndest things; title: Seeing the world in technicolor; title: Sage; title: They've always got my back; title: Downward-facing dog; title: I no longer fear death, nor am I inviting it in; title: The disease does not define you; title: Reality check.