Today I Will Not Die

by Mary Ann Block

Book Overview

My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575667088
• ISBN13: 9781575667089
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Twin Streams
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Never Give Up Hope

When the doctors say there are no more treatments, nothing more they can do, "Today I Will Not Die" gives hope.The author in Fort Worth, Texas, had a 2-year-old daughter who got sicker and sicker the more doctors they saw. The author slipped into a private medical library and started looking for her own answers -- sort of like the character played by Susan Sarandon in the film "Lorenzo's Oil" -- based on a true story on how hard it is to get new approaches explored by the medical establishment. At the age of 39 -- after that experience -- the author, recently divorced, decided to become a doctor and was accepted into an osteopathic program. She had just set up her practice and was starting to get patients, many with Attention Deficit Disorder whom she was treating without drugs, when she learned that her mother who had beat colon cancer a decade before now had lung cancer. Flipping through the book, I read in an early chapter that the daughter who was saved is getting married. By that time the author has been a physician for five years and the author's mother has been very active in all of the planning for the wedding. Five years before the author had been told that her mother's lung cancer was inoperable and that she had only two months to live. The book has a lot of information on how she has now made it possible for her mother to live with the inoperable lung cancer for 10 years. I think the information on nutrition makes sense. Then there is a lot on supplements that I would want to get second, third, fourth, etc. opinions on.