Battling Adult Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: The Real Fight for Those with Ph+ALL

by Robin Clark

Overview

There will be many defining moments in our lives, cancer is one of them. The family dynamics will be challenged in these moments. Some will grab the bull by the horns, stay through the storm and weather its damages. Some run and hide, denying the inevitable and the broken pieces that await them. Some will give wisdom and advice without experience and knowledge, but they feel better for trying. Some just disappear, unable to handle the finality of life. And some just show up for a minute to find closure while they still have a chance to. These moments can create resentment and bitterness or they can open our hearts to unconditional love.

Unconditional love, a selfless love. Giving and taking without expectations of gain. It’s not always about us in this world; sometimes we are put here to help someone else on their journey, no matter what it might be. How we choose to react in these moments will stay with us forever, embedded deep within us. Can we say we did the best we could?

This story is about a wife’s unconditional love for her husband during a battle with Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, and the strength her husband watched her build to prepare her for her life’s journey, wherever that may take her.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164250096
Publisher:	Robin Clark
Publication date:	09/05/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	724 KB

About the Author

Robin Clark is a retired, accomplished Cardiac Nurse who has been published in several medical journals. She recently published Battling Adult Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: The Real Fight for Those with Ph+ALL, a caregiver’s guide. This book chronicles her and her husband’s life during a clinical study for a rare leukemia and bone marrow transplant. She shares many tools and ideas to help others with this same diagnosis. She also self-published Shhhh Breathe, a brutally honest behind-the-scenes memoir of real life at home while living on a university hospital cancer unit. Robin has self-patented a female supplement, Fem-Ease, for the disorder and symptoms of Interstitial Cystitis, patent # US6143300A - Sept 2000. In 2003 she owned and operated two successful restaurants in Oregon, and owned a 216-acre waterfront parcel which she rezoned to be developed into a high-end, multi-unit RV resort on the mouth of the Coos River. In 2009, she received her PhD in Metaphysics and Master’s in Divinity.

Her latest book, Naked Without a Hat: An Extraordinary Adventure Through Relocation Astrology is her break-out moment. After four years of being a widow, she has changed her status to single and is sharing her fantastical self-discovery journey to Greece after meeting with an Astrocartographer. She is the mother of two wonderful children, one the recipient of two Purple Hearts from Iraq, and one a practicing Esthetician, as well as two beautiful grandchildren. When she’s not writing, she enjoys oil painting, beading, gardening and long walks on the beach. She currently lives in Bandon, Oregon and continues to write.