Doing Well at Being Sick - Softcover

Wallace, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572933879 ISBN 13: 9781572933873

Publisher: Discovery House Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Based on her twenty-year journey through chronic illness, Wendy Wallace shares practical suggestions for dealing with illness, helping others understand the struggles of the chronically ill, changing personal attitudes, navigating the medical system, and relying on God for strength. She encourages her readers to draw as much as they can from modern medicine but focuses on truths about life, death, joy, pain, and eternity. The author reminds the chronically ill to keep their physical, emotional, and spiritual selves in balance while facing the daily challenges of loving others, working with vast medical bureaucracies, and growing in their relationship with God.

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From the Back Cover

It is possible to live a full life despite the hard realities of having a chronic illness. Author Wendy Wallace knows how you feel, and she is here to help in Doing Well at Being Sick. She has over twenty years’ experience living with both acute and chronic illness, and she is well qualified to answer the questions that patients and families who are dealing with chronic illness face. Wendy weaves her own story with practical advice, helpful information, and biblical insight, and answers many of the questions that sick people ask:

· Where can you find strength on days when all you experience is weakness?
· What do you do with the guilt that comes from burdening those you love?
· How can you trust God when things seem to be going wrong?
· How do you handle your inability to do what you used to do?
· What can you do to assist your doctors in giving you the best care?

“None of us would choose to live with illness,” the author acknowledges. “But the sickness brings us opportunities. We can use the pain to learn what is important in life . . . and what will bring glory to God.” With Wendy’s wise and compassionate guidance, you too can learn how to do well at being sick.

“You’ve heard that we learn more in the valleys than on the mountaintops. Wendy Wallace has lived this maxim. What a gift to us that she has now told her story—and it is no ordinary telling! Doing Well tugs at your heart, yet tickles your funny bone. You’re about to meet and draw wisdom, perspective, and hope from a great, gifted, and godly woman.”
—John D. Beckett, Chairman, The Beckett Companies, Author of Loving Monday and Mastering Monday

About the Author

Wendy Wallace practiced clinical social work for over thirty years, maintaining a private practice in which she counseled persons from age eight to eighty. She has taught college for many years and has authored three college textbooks. She has been coping with both acute and chronic illness for twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Discovery House Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1572933879
• ISBN 13: 9781572933873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240