Embracing the Wolf: A Lupus Victim and Her Family Learn to Live with Chronic Disease

by Joanna B. Permut

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877971668
• ISBN13: 9780877971665
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Surviving the Wolf

Embracing the Wolf: A Lupus Victim and Her Family ... this book was awesome it really told the journey that you and your family take when the wolfe joins your family (uninvited I might add) but it shows that you can overcome the everyday problems and come to be able to survive and thrive with this problem

Lupus Patients and Familys Must Order this!!

I am a Lupus Patient and had NO idea what my family would go through when I had my diagnosis. It was right there for me to read and grasp but I didn't until after the fact. I watched my family get torn apart and almost lost my number one supporter (my husband) If I had a picture into what I was going to go through I would of been able to prepare and understand what was going on. Well this book is open and honest and would provide that cushion. I recommend it highly

Embracing the Wolf

Prior to reading this book, I was "lost and alone" in my disease. Once read, I was veiled in a shroud of comfort, knowing the symptoms and emotions I was experiencing were not fabricated and/or exaggerated, but REAL. Thank you that was the best medicine I have recieved thus far!

Helpful insights into family dynamics, relationship rescue.

I was so glad to find that the author went through a screaming & nasty fighting phase with her spouse, and of course how she made it beyond that. Eerily close overlay of my experiences with totally different disability (chronic fatigue). Her perspective is noticably feminine, but I had no trouble finding close identity in her, even though I am male. Her story is extremely valuable surrogate communication tool between spouses who often can not express or hear directly the attempts to communicate with each other directly. Extremely valuable even if only one spouse (either sick one or healthy one) reads this book. 5*!

Extraordinarily candid and insightful

This is a rare and special narrative about successfully coping with chronic illness. The author tells her own story, but also incorporates the impact of her illness on her husband and daughter -- the critical family dimension that is so often overlooked in other books. The author tells how she learned to accept illness as a positive force in her life and move on. A "must read" for everyone who must deal with chronic illness. Highly recommended.