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"Widowed a year ago and left with two small and energetic boys, Amelia Beiler is struggling to make ends meet. She is running her late husband's business, but it's not what she was raised to do, which is to run a home and find joy in teaching her boys about God's love. When she puts the business up for sale and gets an offer from an English buyer as well as from one in the church, she unwittingly causes a furor in the Amish community. One top...
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Advice columnist Julianne Ambrose Gillis is used to giving other people advice. But, she's at a loss for words when her husband of 20 years suddenly leaves her and their three children. Not long afterward, Julianne is diagnosed with a serious illness and her children undertake a dangerous journey to bring their wayward father home.
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But no matter what storms life throws at her, Janice refuses to let setbacks and challenges rain on her parade or cloud her outlook. Thanks to supportive coworkers and an upbeat attitude, she's mastered turning countless would-be losses into victories. Now, she shares her stories, alternately funny, heartwarming, and touching, in the hopes that they will help others make it through their rainiest days.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair.
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"From a doctor living with MS: how to radically improve your quality of life with diet, hormones, supplements, exercise, and other lifestyle adjustments Most of us take for granted the little things in life-like walking out to the mailbox, socializing with friends, or enjoying a mug of hot coffee. But what if each daily activity required intensive planning and effort? That's what living with multiple sclerosis is like, and author Micha©±l Friedman...
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Multiple Sclerosis is a devastating, incurable disease that afflicts about one in a thousand North Americans. Striking in the prime of life, it is the most common debilitating neurological disorder of people between the ages of 20 and 40. Eighty percent of patients suffer from cognitive impairments, seventy percent from sexual dysfunction, and fifty percent from depression.
Few people are prepared for the emotional impact of this unpredictable, disabling...
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2021.
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"Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most prevalent non-traumatic, disabling neurologic condition among young adults worldwide. The diagnosis and management of MS is complicated, especially in the setting of a recent significant increase in the number of FDA-approved therapies, and access to neurological care, specifically to MS centers, is limited. The goal of this handbook is to present an updated and practical approach to the accurate diagnosis and...
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New York Times–bestselling author: A woman with MS has built a full life—but is still unsure about love—in this “funny, sad, tender, and triumphant” novel (Kristin Hannah).
Once a dedicated athlete, Anna Bolles saw her life change radically after a multiple sclerosis diagnosis five years ago. Now she fills her days with the vibrancy of life in New York City, teaching at a private school,...
Once a dedicated athlete, Anna Bolles saw her life change radically after a multiple sclerosis diagnosis five years ago. Now she fills her days with the vibrancy of life in New York City, teaching at a private school,...
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This is the powerful story of the author's struggle with multiple sclerosis and how a healer's unusual prescription of mindful altruism--to "give away 29 gifts in 29 days"--ignited her energy, her happiness, and invited more abundance into her life.
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[2019]
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Complete guide with straightforward answers to the most frequently asked questions by MS patients Up-to-date information on treatment options, including the benefits and drawbacks of new MS medications and who should be taking them. Addresses special topics, such as pregnancy in combination with MS treatments and working after diagnosis. Presents an overview of symptoms with tips on how to combat them. Offers useful advice about symptom management...
13) Nest
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On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
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2014.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system. It affects twice as many women as men, who are usually diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40.This Speaking from experience DVD offers offer first-hand accounts from people living with multiple sclerosis. It was produced in partnership with the MS Society VIC.
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"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...
16) Kathleen's story
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Angels in pink volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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660L
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With the support of her two best friends, sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her summer volunteer work at the hospital with her responsibilities caring for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a handsome boy.
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It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand...
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