Only When I Sleep: My Family's Journey Through Cancer

by Lisa Shaw-Brawley and Robert Urich

In December of 1995, at the age of twenty-four, Lisa Shaw-Brawley was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma. Shaw-Brawley and her husband were visiting her family in California during... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558747745
• ISBN13: 9781558747746
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Hci
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Love conquers all.

This book is an enlightening experience into a world that I knew virtually nothing about. I have never had to deal with Cancer in a personal way, but I feel better equipped to do so if needed. This book will be an inspiration to those who have had to deal with this in their lives or who are going through it now. But for those of us who never have, it can help us to be more compassionate to those that need us to be. This is not merely a story of survival, but even more so, a story of love. No matter what we or a loved one may go through, we need our family. Lisa was able to go through everything she did with the love and support of her family. Love really does conquer all.

Courage and love

This is a wonderfully uplifting book on surviving a difficult battle with cancer, but it is even more the story of a family's love and support for each other through that difficult battle. Through this young woman's faith in God's healing power, and the love of her parents and husband she confronted this terrible illness with determination to live and the courage to undergo the treatment necessary to live. It is obvious, too, that her family also had to have a lot of courage and faith in this battle. Where many husbands might have become faint-hearted in this, Lisa's husband stayed at her side and had tremendous conviction that she would recover. He is to be praised for his steadfastness! With her recovery complete, what a blessing Lisa, her parents, and her husband were given with the birth of a son. This is most definitely one of the most uplifting and inspirational books I have had the pleasure of reading in a long while. I highly recommend it!

Courageous..Loving..From the heart!

Lisa Shaw-Brawley's newly released book "Only When I sleep....My family's journey through Cancer" is a tearful and heart warming look at a family's struggle and challenge as they all face cancer. As a breast cancer survivor this book speaks realistically to the many layers a person experiences when dealing with this disease. Cancer does not just affect the patient, it's effects run through family, friends and those aquatinted with the person. Information and education will assist a person in the struggle which must be faced when hearing the words, "You have cancer". Lisa's book addresses the fear, challenges, and medical procedures which she faced and how she and her family survived. The joy is in the ending, but you'll have to read the book to receive that blessing.

Lisa Shaw-Brawley is honest and direct.

One word...amazing! I have not had cancer myself, however I have many friends and family members who have both won their battle with cancer and some that have lost. I thought I understood what they were going through, not until I read Lisa Shaw-Brawley's book did I realize just how little I knew about their struggles. I found this book educational and surprisingly, though I never thought I would describe a book on cancer as such, but also a love story. For such a young woman, being diagnosed with Hodgkin's, Lisa at only 24 is a very centered and determined young woman. In the very early stages of her treatment she made choices about her journey through cancer that meant the difference between living and dying. With determination to fight her way back to a body free of cancer, along the way Lisa helped those around her deal with all of their confusion and fear of a disease that came into their lives with a thunder and changed them forever.Have faith in God, trust in your doctors, love and support from family and friend and a will to survive, is what Lisa said got her through to where she is today. I cried for her and rejoiced for her and along the way was lost in this book that I could not put down. I have a greater understanding and admiration for what my friends and family members went through because of "Only When I Sleep".Thank you Lisa for writing this book.

It Made Me Cry

Lisa did a wonderful job with this book. The only time I put it down was when I had to reach for my tissue. It has been a very long time since a story has touched me like this one. Anyone who has had cancer touch their lives should read this book. Anyone who has never had any experience with the dreaded "C" word, should read this book! It was truly inspirational, and yet at the same time, heart-rending!