Tracking a Shadow : My Lived Experiment with MS

Forbes, Edith

ISBN 10: 1954854242 / ISBN 13: 9781954854246

Published by Flashpoint Books, 2022

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tracking a Shadow : My Lived Experiment with MS
• Publisher: Flashpoint Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1954854242
• ISBN 13: 9781954854246
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.4 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

A memoir of the author’s twenty-five-year, self-designed experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to meet trouble with active resistance. 

When novelist Edith Forbes experienced her first episode of multiple sclerosis in 1993, few treatments existed. The famously crippling disease was a medical mystery, its cause unknown and its course unpredictable. The only medical advice Forbes received then was to “simply live your life.” She had other ideas.

Forbes grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, raised by a widowed mother who met challenges head on. Besides shouldering responsibility for seven children and a cattle ranch, Forbes’s dynamo mother had ambitions to change the world. As a forward-thinking woman in a largely male business, she became a model of tenacity and independence for her daughter.

After her MS diagnosis, Forbes turned her fear into action, immersing herself in the medical literature to search for ideas. Finding an unexpected connection between the medical information and her own knowledge of agriculture, she embarked on a self-designed experiment that continues to this day.

Tracking a Shadow weaves together the story of Forbes’s personal twenty-five-year medical experiment with a memoir of the mother whose constant determination to look for better answers shaped the author’s unique approach to her disease.

About the Author

Edith Forbes grew up on a family ranch in Wyoming. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English. She is the author of four novels: Alma Rose, Nowle’s Passing, Exit to Reality, and Navigating the Darwin Straits. Recently retired from her farm, she lives in Vermont.