Lean on Me: Ten Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life Hardcover - 2006

From the publisher

The prognosis you give yourself is the only one that's important. You can't allow yourself to become the victim of a negative prognosis.

At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: "There is nothing you can do. Go home and go to bed...forever." Nancy left her doctor's office in shock and despair. How could it be that within a year she would be confined to her bed, at best able to push the buttons on her television's remote control? She had plans. She had a family. She had a life that she desperately wanted to live.

"Lean on Me" couples Nancy's deeply personal story with a step-by-step guide to empower anyone to take charge of his or her own health care in the face of any life-threatening disease:

Step Two Fear Less

Step Four Find Your Dr. Right

Step Six You Are What You Ingest

Step Eight Explore Alternative Therapies

Step Ten Give Back

"Lean on Me" is the health advocate that each of us needs to adopt in the face of a medical crisis. It is a book that shows how to navigate the health care waters, to find hope, to take positive action, and to celebrate progress -- all kinds, every day. It provides the knowledge and power to make good choices. It supplies the authoritative information that can enable you to save your life or the life of a loved one.