Fever of Unknown Origin
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Fever of Unknown Origin

A True Tale of Medicine, Mystery, and Magic

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fever of Unknown Origin

A True Tale of Medicine, Mystery, and Magic

About this book

Judith Ford was a successful psychotherapist with a relatively new second marriage, a full-time clinical practice, and three children. She was also a runner, a yoga-practitioner, a dancer, and a writer when she came down with a mysterious illness that landed her in the hospital for a full summer and nearly ended her life. She recovered through a combination of Western medicine and shamanic journeys. A few years later she helped her parents through their final illnesses. This book is both her story and theirs, about how each of them maintained hope or sometimes despaired. It's about how they each suffered and rallied, laughed, loved, forgave, and let go. And it's about how all of us live in the shadows of the unknown and the unanswerable.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue
  4. Chapter 1: There is an Emergency
  5. Chapter 2: Body, My Good Bright Dog
  6. Chapter 3: I Feel Very Sick. I Feel Awful.
  7. Chapter 4: A Minute Fiercely Burning Particle of Being
  8. Chapter 5: Blue Devil
  9. Chapter 6: All This Must Go
  10. Chapter 7: Steep Places
  11. Chapter 8: Hatch Out the Total Helplessness
  12. Chapter 9: For Help and Health
  13. Chapter 10: A Literal Hairpin
  14. Chapter 11: A Demented Woman
  15. Chapter 12: Water Buffalo
  16. Chapter 13: Press on Regardless
  17. Chapter 14: Bloody Bites
  18. Chapter 15: The Angel in My Blood
  19. Chapter 16: No Short Cut, No Invisible Path
  20. Chapter 17: Rolling Loose
  21. Chapter 18: Sickness
  22. Chapter 19: There Was a Door
  23. Chapter 20: Something To Get Used To
  24. Chapter 21: Suffering’s Lesson
  25. Chapter 22: Tedium, Despair
  26. Chapter 23: The Gift of Pain
  27. Chapter 24: Great Winds
  28. Chapter 25: Alleluia!
  29. Chapter 26: I Take My Waking Slow
  30. Chapter 27: Close to the Beasts
  31. Chapter 28: Rabbits
  32. Chapter 29: An Infant in a Woman’s Body
  33. Chapter 30: Side Effects
  34. Chapter 31: Fate Is What Befalls Us
  35. Chapter 32: This Need to Be Safely Held
  36. Chapter 33: Letting Go
  37. Chapter 34: The Dying of Bert’s Light
  38. Chapter 35: Aging, Everybody Knows It
  39. Chapter 36: There Is No Ship for You
  40. Chapter 37: Not a Happy Life
  41. Chapter 38: Bewildering Changes
  42. Chapter 39: The Sun Shifts Forever
  43. Chapter 40: She Had Always Wanted to Escape
  44. Chapter 41: We Can Live. And We Will.
  45. Chapter 42: The Mountains are Home
  46. Bibliography