Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate exquisite and trueaccount of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed withtermin... » 

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate exquisite and trueaccount of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed withterminal cancer former home care worker and awardwinning writer Rebecca Browncared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spareunsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed bydefinitions of medical terms she confronts anemia chemotherapy metastasiscremation. Browns is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family copedwith loss and learned about the longevity of love. The Wisconsin edition is forsale only in North America. «