Hodgkins-Disease Books

When Dan Shapiro was 21 he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that automatically changed his life and left him with the typical battles of chemotherapy, surgery and all its side effects. Yet being the son of delightful, highly energetic and incredibly optimistic parents helped him battle the odds and exceed the life expectations the doctors set for him. The title of the book comes from his mother actually growing marijuana to help with the anorexia and nausea that his chemo sessions left him with. Though not a drug advocate, mom is an expert gardner and grows bushes of cannibus that would make any drug user happy for the rest of his life. His parents help is always to the extreme and its hilarious the measures they take to ensure that their son's cancer not take over his life.
The other wonderful part of this story is just the progression that he makes with each chapter- finding love, graduating medical school, buying a house, and of course beating the disease. Shapiro is warm, compassionate, yet downright hilarious. I couldn't help but read outloud some of the passages to my boyfriend such as when his parents decide he should donate his sperm, or when his mom tells his new girlfriend that they have pot drying in their attic. This book is just wonderful. You will have no problem enjoying it.

A must read if you've ever known anyone diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease.

Helped me understand what my own son was enduring.

My 19 year old son is going through cancer treatment, and by chance a friend loaned me this book. It is a wonderful reference for anyone who has a young relative going through cancer treatment.

I picked this book up in the biography section of my library.
I was about to have my knee operated on and wondered if I could find a good book to read during the days in bed not moving. Well, I was moved by this book.
It is one of the best books I have ever read.
You almost feel like you know Dan through his setbacks and triumphs.
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You will fall in love with this wonderful book.

You might think that the title of my review refers to this man's life changing experience, but in fact I'm speaking of the life changing experience that has been reading this book. Dan Shapiro truly is a brilliant man and he wrote a complex, insightful book. I think the title is misleading, but the story more than makes up for it. It's almost as if the book is interactive; it makes you think back about many things, and can be very humorous at times. When he said he knew his daughter wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for his mother's talking to a stranger, it took me a while to realize he was talking about the woman in that first waiting room telling his mother to save sperm. I like that, that way that Daniel Shapiro has about writing this book. It was one of my favorite books, if not my favorite book, that I have ever read, and I would absolutely love to see a sequel of some sort. (This is the kind of book that once you're finished reading you feel like you've known the author all your life and you wish to meet him.)

From Erin with Love is a book written about a real person with real feelings. Erin is a college student who is diagnosed with a fatal disease. This book, with the help of her journals, recounts the story of how she and her loved ones coped with this horrible twist of fate. The love that people felt for Erin shines through this book and the experience of her family after Erin's death affirms that death is not an end but a beginning... I guarantee that this book with touch you. Not to be missed.

I have recently lost my mother and this book helped me through what has been the most difficult time of my life to date. Helen's experiences were heartfelt.

I happened to stumble upon the author's site a few months ago and I think there was a reason why I did. Meeting Helen and reading her book has helped me to better deal with my great loss.

Helen's website has been very helpful to me and my family. You can post a letter on her site and she will reply. You will find that she is on a mission to help people going through the heartache of a great loss. Helen has been driven by her daughter, Erin, to write her book and live her life in this way and for this I am thankful to them both.

I too feel that I am being driven to research life after death and that part of my experience was to find Helen's site and read her book.

I highly recommend this wonderful, uplifting piece of art 'From Erin with Love'.

A priceless book, written to give hope and peace to those who have lost, and courage to face the future knowing that you will not be "alone" and left behind. Our loved ones stay with us, and are eager to remain a part of our lives. Thanks Helen!!!

this is a wonderful book,, recently lost my "mom",, and her favorite color was "red"... since then I have seen a cardinal,, who is around all the time...especially when I am missing my mom the most.. so I can identify with the butterfly,, coincidence? maybe,,, but I think there is more to this world than we can ever know,, thank you for this book,, I will not forget it...

I would hope that everyone would find the time to read this book. Helen Fisher, with the direction of her daughter Erin, has turned tragedy into triumph. What a great job Helen did in bringing Erin to us,,,,,,,and at same time bringing her back into their lives. I admire your courage!

Description: Master of Law (LL.M.) thesis
Pages: 140
Report Date: 2001

The ever-increasing convergence of U.S. military and commercial space activities poses new challenges to the viability of the legal concepts that have traditionally governed the use of outer space, and particularly the military use of space, from the beginning of the space age. This paper looks at two examples of where the melding of U.S. military and commercial space activities necessitates a reexamination of the applicable legal theories. Part I examines the concept of self-defense in outer space, by considering the legality of the use of conventional military force to defend against "cyber-attack" on its commercial space assets. Part II examines the concept of the use of outer space for "peaceful purposes" under international law, by focusing on the permissibility of military use of the International Space Station. Petras concludes that as private commercial entities increasingly take their place aside state actors in outer space, understanding the impact of space commercialization on the law governing military-related activities in outer space becomes more-and-more important to policymakers, military planners, legal scholars and space law practitioners alike.

Originally produced as a thesis in fulfillment of Master of Law (LL.M.) degree requirements at McGill University's Institute of Air & Space Law in Montreal (available online from Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/space06.htm), the work was subsequently published in 2002 as two separate law review articles: one in the Air Force Law Review (U.S. Air Force) and the second in the Journal of Air Law and Commerce (Southern Methodist University). Preeminent space law pioneer and scholar, Professor Ivan Vlasic, praised Petras' work as "original and innovative" and "very well written." A retired senior Canadian Air Force officer who reviewed the thesis said it was the best he'd read in the almost 20 years as an external thesis examiner at McGill. Petras completed the LL.M. program in 2001, graduating with highest honors.

Other works by this author:
"Space Force Alpha: Military Use of the International Space Station and the Concept of "Peaceful Purposes," 53 A.F. L. Rev. 135 (2002).
"The Use of Force in Response to Cyber-Attack on Commercial Space Systems," 67 J. Air L. & Com. 1213 (2002).
"The Debate Over the Weaponization of Space--A military Legal Conspectus," 28 Annals of Air & Space L. 171 (2003).
"Eyes on Freedom--A View of the Law Governing the Use of Satellite Reconnaissance in U.S. Homeland Defense," 31 J. of Space L. 81 (2005).

Take the time to read this book. It is worth the read and it is a truly a touching account of a caring, loving husband and how he and his wife together battled through the years she battled with Hodgkin's. If this book does not move your heart to care about people, nothing will. Totally worth the time to read this book. It is not hard to pick up, but hard to put down.

This book outlines the current classification of Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in the Revised European-American Lymphoma (REAL) classification scheme. Concise chapters on specific entities with criteria for classification, morphology, immunophenotype, cytogenetic findings, differential diagnoses, treatment and clinical outcome are provided in an easy to digest format written by the authors of the REAL committee.

as tony the tiger would say "There great" just like this book. If your kids are into hockey i suggest that you shoot this book right under the tree this year. they will love it and learn what it takes to be great.

Laurel Lee's books have a special place in my heart. Few books have a style that sets them apart from, and makes them hard to compare with, all others. Her writing on the surface reads as easily as a children's book (she also wrote for children). But in that simplicity there is great transparency and insight. The books are mostly prose, but laced with sparkling word images and drawings that speak directly to the heart and are truly a (very accessible) form of poetry. Just a couple of examples:

"In one stroke, I cut with some mental shears that fifty-more-years river, leaving me a short stretch .... I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."

"I was stunned. I knew I must be in Stage III. I could count my thoughts and emotions, as if my head had broken into a lot of little pieces and they were falling slow enough to number. I was mad at every encouraging word and that I had believed them.
"We all stood two inches tall; I was set up for a fall. It was winter, and they took my only coat."

Laurel's books are special to me mainly because of they way they exude joy and life without being in the least syrupy or naive (indeed there is plenty of doubt, discouragement, and pain expressed as well, as in the quote above).

Though valuable for anyone, Walking through the Fire was written as a gift for the doctors who were caring for Laurel during her first illness. It offers them a candid and often humorous view from the patient's perspective. Her inside view has shaped my own practice as a pediatrician and I believe that every health care worker should consider her books required reading. And besides ... they're fun!

Unfortunately, these journals are out of print. The new book Tapestry, though, appears to contain much if not all of the same material and more. I'm going to read it as soon as I can get it out here to Nigeria.

From the sound of the spikes on the cement, the movie is authentic. From the opening lines to the end, the book is bittersweet in it's finest form. Running around the field at Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines in 1976, our shortstop, Vinnie Mallozzi from South Babylon Long Island and I, the second baseman would run and without prompting would hum or whistle "The Streets of Larado." The locker room, like the barracks or in our case, our ship, is a place for men, of lessons learned and friendships formed. Before The Natural, Fields of Dreams or Bull Durham, there were Mark Harris' novels and this movie with Robert DeNiro of all people as Bruce Pearson that showed men as they are and maybe more importantly of what they want to be. Don't play baseball much these days, but I still have a bat, a glove and a baseball. What I also do is hum Streets of Larado while on my runs, in rememberance.

My wife checked the book-on-tape version of this novel out for me from the public library, so that I could listen to it as I commuted to and from work. Wow! What a beautiful and powerful story.

We are, all of us, dying. But when we are confronted with that fact, it helps us to appreciate what time we have. Mark Harris weaves this simple idea into a stunning and unforgettable story.

5 stars to the book, and 5 stars for my very thoughtful wife!

This is one that I really hated to finish because I was enjoying it so much. Probably the best sports fiction book I've ever read. I enjoyed it much more than The Natural. The characters seem very realistic. The book manages to be both funny and sad, and it captures the feel of a real baseball season with all the personal interactions that happen between games. Now, I only wish I knew how to play Tegwar.

Bang The Drum Slowly is a must read book for sports fans and an entertaining book for casual readers. The book starts with "Author" getting a call from his friend Bruce. Author finds out that Bruce is diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. Bruce tells only Author because he is his only friend on the baseball team. Author feels responsible for Bruce and keeps his spirits up. The team goes through most of the season dysfunctional and barely staying in first place. The team finds out about his illness and rallies around him. Bruce's career is revived, while salvaging the season. Bruce dies at the end of the novel before the season is finished. Bang The Drum Slowly is an enjoyable for all readers. Mark Harris writes the book in first person as the character Author. The book is written sloppy to fit Author's baseball personality. The description, feelings, and visualization are not great, so the book is not for a meticulous reader. If you are looking for a book to entertain you, then Bang The Drum Slowly is a perfect book to choose. Harris does a good job by putting you in the lives of the baseball players. He shows all the different personalities and how the mesh on a team. It is interesting to learn how the baseball players live. You learn about the player's constantly traveling, media, and refraining from bad desires from big cities. As a baseball player, I enjoyed learning how the players I worship live. After reading the book, you learn that baseball was only a small part of it. Harris emphasizes the importance of friendships. He shows how great accomplishments can be achieved if people work together and give it their all. The love in friendships can do great things. Bruce became a great baseball player after every one rallies around him because it improves his self-esteem. Bang The Drum Slowly is a great book because it strongly gets its theme across while making the reader keep the book in the readers hands. YOU MUST READ BANG The Drum Slowly!!!

I first read Bang the Drum Slowly as a high school student and it stayed on my mind for several days after I finished it. In fact, it had such an impact on the way that I saw life that I was more than a little reluctant to read it again, fearing that my fond memories of the book would be spoiled. That kind of thing has happened to me several times in the past, but not this time. Bang the Drum Slowly is still the great book that I experienced the first time around.

In the era before free agency rules made millionaires out of very mediocre baseball players, even all-star left-handed pitchers had to find work in the off season. Henry Wiggin, star lefthander for what was probably the best team in baseball during the early 1950s, the New York Mammoths, was no exception. Henry took to selling life insurance and annuities to his fellow ball players and he became quite good at his sales job. One of Henry's customers was Bruce Pearson, a third-string Mammoth catcher who bought an insurance policy covering his life only to later discover that he was dying of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a disease that was incurable in the 1950s.

Bang the Drum Slowly at its base is a realistic baseball novel told in the words (and with the spelling skills) of a small town boy born during the Depression who had the physical skills to become a major league baseball pitcher. It is an honest look at what goes on off the field and in the clubhouse when athletes spend more time on the road, and with each other, than they spend with their wives and children. There are racial tensions, drinking problems, womanizing and personality clashes that have to be dealt with by management, a baseball management generally interested only in the club's bottom line.

The heart of this story, however, is the bad break that fate has handed Bruce Pearson. He faces imminent death even in what turns out to be the best season of his career. Henry Wiggin, feeling protective of the naïve Pearson, does his best to keep Pearson's secret from team management and their teammates. But when word of Pearson's situation slowly begins to leak, amazing things begin to happen to the New York Mammoths and to Bruce Pearson.

Mark Harris, who passed away just a few weeks ago, will long be remembered for Bang the Drum Slowly, a book that was chosen by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 100 sports books of all time. This book has something for baseball fans and non-sports fans alike and, even after such a long absence, I enjoyed spending time again with Henry Wiggin.

Love the book, but unfortunately, due to the fact I needed it quickly as I'm doing a film about the author, I bought it at a bookstore. My order never arrived. This was the second time this has happened.

I will not be using Amazon again.

This is a great tale of persistence and survival. But the book isn't really fair in its presentation. He isn't really a climber, not in the Ed Vestries or Joe Simpson vein. He is a good kid who twice beat cancer and then started to hike.

His accomplishments are great, but his writing is not. It is evident that he writes this book thinking we know little about climbing, and so for some it maybe enlightening.

But if you have read alot of the classic mountaineering books about Everest or the eiger...you will find this one rather simplistic.

What an amazing story of sheer determination and beating the odds. Sean Swarner is a tough and focused individual without a doubt. At the same time I found the author to be a little on the unlikeable side. Aside from personality, anybody that knows first hand or has even read something as simple as "Into Thin Air" knows that at the time his approach to Everest was both reckless and egoistic. What he lacked in experience he tried to make up for with physical prowess and by sheer luck he didn't face any truly adverse conditions. While inspiring in many ways, hopefully this book doesn't inspire anyone with grandiose visions and a fat wallet to follow in his footsteps.

Sean Swarner's story is so touching. The power to survive in this young man is remarkable. We all have our own moutains to climb and his story reminds us that all things are possible as long as you keep climbing. A must read book.

The book is amazing. The greatest story of hope, determination and the most incredible strength. Not just a story for Cancer survivors, a story for all people. You feel his pain, struggle, hope, and triumph. I try to apply his zest for living in my own life. A GREAT BOOK!

Shannon Thomas is a thirteen year old girl who lives in Tenessee. She has Hodgkins disease,a type of cancer that is deadly. Shannon is tired of all of the things she has to go through during chemo like, her hair falling out.

One day Shannon is in the doctors waiting room anxious to see if she will have go through more chemo. She was talking to a girl who says that there is a girl named Sister Euphrasia in New Orleans who can cure you with just the touch of her hands. In the same day she learns she has to undergo more chemo. Shannon knows her parents would forbid her to go see Sister Euphrasia. So Shannon knows she needs to go to see her by herself.

The meaning of this story is to never give up. That is one of the reasons I really like this story. It is interesting to see the people and things Shannon runs into next.

The Only Way Out by Deborah Kent was a great book. It was about a young girl named Shannon Thomas who was fed up with chemotherapy and was told that there was a person in New Orleans that could cure her disease. Nowing that her parents would not allow her to go to New Orleans she has to set off on this long trip alone. During her trip she incounters many people who help her and befriend her, their mental, and physical help allow her to reach her destination. This is a great book and anyone of any age would be interested in reading it.

Shannon Thomas is a thirteen year old girl who lives in Tenessee. She has Hodgkins disease,a type of cancer that is deadly. Shannon is tired of all of the things she has to go through during chemo like her hair falling out.

One day Shannon is in the doctors waiting room anxious to see if she will have go through more chemo. She was talking to a girl who says that there is a girl named Sister Euphrasia in New Orleans who can cure you with just the touch of her hands. In the same day she learns she has to undergo more chemo. Shannon knows her parents would forbid her to go. So Shannon knows she needs to go to see Sister Euphrasia by herself.

The meaning of this story is to never give up. That is one of the reasons I really like this story. It is interesting to see the people and things Shannon runs into next.

A girl name Shannon Thomas would go out of her way to see Sister Euphrasia to be cured from Hodgekins disease. On her run away journey she meets several friends. It was a very discriptive book. There was some fuzzy parts, but most of it is great. You can feel what she's going through inside. When you're not reading the book you feel like you know the caracters.

Overall, not a bad book, the author tells a story of a 14 year old girl named shannon thomas who has hodgkins disease and has had chemo for the past two years when her doctor tells her she is in remission, but when the doctor moves away the new doctor tells her new studies show more chemo could help her. She meets a girl named Kim in the waiting room of the office who tells her of a Sister Euphrasia in the French Quarter of New Orleans who can heal these certain diseases. Knowing her parents would forbid this she takes off on a journey from a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin to the heart of New Orleans to find this Sister Euphraisa. She makes many friends on her journey, some come close, others she knows only for a short time. I would reccomend this book to anybody that wants to read it, it will keep you up all night wondering what is next, then the cravings make you pick it up and read some more.