Nonfiction: Medical, Self-Help Books
Managing Major Chronic Diseases
Advice from a Patient by Alexis Dupree
DON’T LET MAJOR CHRONIC DISEASES PREVENT YOU FROM LIVING YOUR LIFE WELL
Imagine having a dozen major chronic diseases—and living life to the fullest (picture: multiple sclerosis, type 2 diabetes, epilepsy, congenital hypogammaglobulinemia …).
What if you had a life attitude that will make you unbeatable?
Over 30 years ago, Alexis Dupree was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She thought her life was over. But it wasn’t. Since then, she accumulated more diseases and had many surgeries. Even twelve major chronic diseases DIDN’T get her down.
In her book, Managing Major Chronic Diseases: Advice from a Patient, she shares her expertise of living a life with multiple major chronic diseases—and living it well.
Because doctors and nurses don’t live with the disease. Patients do.
In this book you will learn the following:
- What changing your attitude really means
- How to redefine your dreams
- How to create a new game plan for your life
- How to make life easier for yourself
- How to manage your disease (or diseases)
- What the four challenges are for any major chronic disease
- What the five key tactics are for managing any major chronic disease
- The vital importance of lying to yourself
- How a previous prime minister of Great Britain should influence your life
- How to be a survivor
We all have good genes and bad genes. It’s just a matter of luck, and those of us with major diseases got a rotten deal.
What are you going to do now?
Give up? Whine? Sit in your house for the rest of your life and not do a darn thing? Forget about your dreams?
Stop asking why. Just decide some stupid disease isn’t going to bring you down.
Pick up your copy today to learn what you need to manage your condition and control your life.
Knee Replacement Advice, Checklists, and Journal
Recovering Successfully from Knee Replacement Surgery Despite Complications: Practical Advice from a Patient by Alexis Dupree
“A must-have for those who are planning to undergo knee replacement surgery,” Five-Star Review by Readers’ Favorite
“Knee Replacement Advice, Checklists, and Journal is a unique, ‘real world practical’, impressively informative, and thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ instructional reference book that is unreservedly recommended for anyone contemplating knee surgery and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community and academic library Health/Medicine collections.” The Midwest Book Review
“… a humorous but accurate depiction of the trials and triumphs of knee replacement surgery and living with your new knee,” Pat Ercole, physical therapist
“I am not a medical professional,” Dupree says, “I’m just a patient. So unlike other books on knee replacement, it doesn’t describe the physiology of the knee or provide other medical information. It delivers practical information patients need to know that they probably won’t get from doctors or nurses. I’ve had many surgeries and I’ve learned a great deal along the way.”
The book explains what to do before surgery, what to buy in advance, what and how to set up the patient’s home, and details on how to control pain and swelling. It also includes answers to frequently asked questions and provides helpful tips patients can use during the recovery phase. The last chapter discusses the specific ways life changes after knee replacement surgery, with details on how to handle the changes.
“I built the book around a very clear goal,” Dupree says. “Resume normal life as quickly as possible. I’m very happy my right knee was replaced. The surgery got rid of the excruciating pain and I’m far better than I was before.”
Appendixes include checklists for recording information about orthopedic surgeons, rehabilitation centers (if needed), physical therapy centers, insurance information, home preparation, medical appointments, medicines, and medical log. The second appendix includes a nearly 200-page journal where patients can keep notes during their recovery.
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