A Promise Fulfilled: One Couple's Journey Through Misdiagnosis, Breast Cancer and Advocacy

by William C. Thiel

Book Overview

Every woman when she finds a breast lump wants to hear the good news. Most of them do. Sometimes the good news allows you to live in denial, told don't worry about it, you have common cysts or fibrocystic disease. It is those women I must find and give them Maureen's story, to educate them on what killed Maureen and what you must do to prevent it from happening to you. I know from fact thousands of women are sitting at home happy, told not to worry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595407471
• ISBN13: 9780595407477
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Promise Kept is a must read for everyone who is a woman or loves one.

A Promise Kept is a must read for everyone who is a woman or loves one. The book takes the reader deep into the world of an average American Family, before and after a devastating medical error would change all of their lives forever. A Promise Kept is the story of a woman's fight for her life, her hopes, her dreams and her passion. Since the great loss of Maureen Thiel, her husband has carried on her mission and her greatest wish, which is to prevent others from experiencing the hell that ravaged her family by a severely flawed and uncertain medical system. Once one walks through the door of preventable medical error, there is no turning back, prevention through knowledge is the only way out of a potential nightmare. Lastly, A Promise Kept, is a beautiful love story between two people who were meant to be together forever. This story is will surely keep you interested and make you cry.

Life, Death, Love, Courage

This is an heroic story. PROMISE FULFILLED gives us important information about breast cancer and patient/doctor relationships, but it is much more. It is a love story, a medical mystery, courtroom drama, a family and community saga. Bill and Maureen Thiel could be people in our church, in our neighborhood, and yet we meet them as heroic figures when they have little or no control over their lives. Maureen Buchanan Jones takes the facts of this family's life and tells a classic tale with heroes and villains, courage and deceit, love and honor.

A Touching Tribute and Warning!

I was very interested to find out what this woman's experience had been but did not expect to get as emotionally involved knowing the basic plot to begin with. But the author did such a good job of revealing how very special this woman was to everyone and my empathy for her situation grew tremendously. It was gut wrenching to hear about all she went through physically and emotionally as well as her family. It was such a tribute to her that her husband not only honored his promise but did it with such loving respect. This book not only made me keenly aware of the need for early detection but made me feel very feel grateful to be healthy.