Worth Fighting For
eBook - ePub

Worth Fighting For

Love, Loss, and Moving Forward

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Worth Fighting For

Love, Loss, and Moving Forward

About this book

From Patrick Swayze's widow—the moving, New York Times bestselling account of grief, loss, caregiving, and moving on, with touching stories from their final months together. When Lisa Niemi first exchanged vows with Patrick Swayze, she promised to be with her husband "till death do us part." But how many couples stop and think about what that truly means? Worth Fighting For is both a candid tribute to a marriage and a celebration of the healing power that each day holds, even in the most difficult of circumstances. Lisa shares the details of Patrick's twenty-one-month battle with Stage IV pancreatic cancer, and she describes his last days, when she simply tried to keep him comfortable. She writes with heartbreaking honesty about her grief in the aftermath of his death and openly discusses the challenges that the years without him have posed. Her story is an emotionally honest and unflinching depiction of loss, but it is also a hopeful and life-affirming exploration of the power of the human spirit. "I tell you, I am a different person now, " she writes, "one who has been thrown into the fire and forged."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Back Cover
  3. Praise
  4. Description
  5. Authro Bio
  6. Title Page
  7. Copyright Page
  8. Dedication
  9. Contents
  10. Chapter 1: Fairy Tale
  11. Chapter 2: The Diagnosis
  12. Chapter 3: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
  13. Chapter 4: Uncharted Territory
  14. Chapter 5: Everybody Finds Out
  15. Chapter 6: The Troops Arrive
  16. Chapter 7: In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data
  17. Chapter 8: Russian Roulette
  18. Chapter 9: Embracing the Alligator
  19. Chapter 10: The Beast
  20. Chapter 11: If You Call Me Captain, I’ll Call You Daddy
  21. Chapter 12: Dancing As Fast As We Can
  22. Chapter 13: Dark Nights, Graced with Snow
  23. Chapter 14: Gimme Something Real
  24. Chapter 15: Abraxane—The Breast Cancer Drug
  25. Chapter 16: Just Your Daily 911 Emergency
  26. Chapter 17: Outrunning the Ambulance Chasers
  27. Chapter 18: Rallies Again
  28. Chapter 19: And Another Thing
  29. Chapter 20: My Secret Weapon
  30. Chapter 21: The Last Infection
  31. Chapter 22: One More Decision
  32. Chapter 23: Home at Last
  33. Chapter 24: The Immediate Aftermath
  34. Epilogue
  35. Acknowledgments
  36. List of Illustrations