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PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated

ISBN-101470899531

ISBN-139781470899530

eBay Product ID (ePID)245624687

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Book TitleHow to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Publication Year2013

TopicFriendship, Personal Memoirs, Medical

LanguageEnglish

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorLetty Cottin Pogrebin

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Length5.7 In.

Item Width5.2 In.

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews How to Bea Friend to a Friend Who's Sick gives us excellent tools and movingexperiences to love and nurture the sick and dying. It urges and enables us tomove toward those in need rather than fleeing in terror or despair. It is ahandbook of kindness and care and will help patients and healers, which isultimately all of us., A lively, breezy, important book about conversationsthat are often difficult but need not be. How I wish I'd read this beforesome of my own cringe-worthy mistakes. Remember how your mom told you to justbe yourself? Letty Pogrebin helps you be your best self, even in the mostuncomfortable situations. You will thank her for giving you the courage to be atrue friend., After examining a potentially difficult andnearly universal experience--dealing with a friend's illness--from many points ofview, Letty Pogrebin has turned her findings into wise and witty lessons abouta prized but neglected human trait: empathy. In advising us on what to do andsay, she also shows why she's the kind of friend we all would want to have ifwe were sick., I wish Letty's wonderful book had beenavailable thirteen years ago when I had cancer. I would have given it to all ofmy friends and begged them to read it., A cancer survivor channels her ordeal into reflections on the nature of empathy and friendships...A useful refresher course on navigating the complicated territory of compassionate companionship., Pogrebin, a veteran feminist, author, and cofounder (with Gloria Steinem) of Ms. magazine, uses her experience with breast cancer...to craft this bluntly practical and gently humorous guide to the dos and don'ts of caring for the ill... It's the bravery and wisdom Pogrebin brought to her own battle that lifts this guide from a mere list of sickroom rules to invaluable lessons for sickness and health.

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisEveryone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs, and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking to her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people wished their friends knew about how best to comfort, help, and even simply talk to them. Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and opinions into this wide-ranging compendium of pragmatic guidance and usable wisdom. Her advice is always infused with sensitivity, warmth, and humor. It is embedded in candid stories from her own and others' journeys and their sometimes imperfect interactions with well-meaning friends. How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick is an invaluable guidebook for anyone hoping to rise to the challenges of this most important and demanding passage of friendship.

Number of Pages8 pages