So Close To Death Yet So Far Away

Author : Derek C. Evans
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544677472

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So Close to Death Yet So Far Away by Derek C. Evans Pdf

Growing up Derek Evans was a good student and athlete in a middle-class suburban area in southeastern Pennsylvania. The future looked bright for Derek. After waking up from a nap during his shift as a life guard at the age of seventeen, everything changed. After months of not feeling right and several doctors' visits, it was determined that Derek was beginning to suffer from a dysautonoima disorder called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). POTS, sometimes referred to as an invisible illness, is a very unknown yet destabilizing and bizarre syndrome. Derek's next 8 years became a health roller coaster ride amid remission, relapses, emergency room and doctors' visits, and several different medications. Despite all this, Derek managed to keep his illness a secret from almost everyone, in fear of being judged and not understood. In October of 2016, Derek worked as an Assistant Branch Manager at Hertz Rent -A- Car. He collapsed inside a body shop during a sales call and woke up in an ambulance being transported to the hospital. After this life changing incident, Derek decided enough was enough and was determined to make major changes. Besides a new career, Derek found a passion to let the truth out about his illness. It was time to bring awareness. In this book, you will find the story of Derek's battle with POTS as well as interviews with mothers of children with POTS, doctors' opinions on the illness, and stories of many others suffering from POTS. You will begin to see life from the eyes of a person suffering from the invisible illness, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Although over one million people worldwide have been diagnosed, there is still little known about POTS. What is known by those who have it, is at times they feel like they are so close to dying, yet told they are so far away.

Author : Fabian M.C. Kuykendall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781453507162

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Man of Few Words by Fabian M.C. Kuykendall Pdf

Man of Few Words is my story. It reads like a journal that chronicles my life. It’s a compilation of poems, songs, essays, short stories, and thoughts derived from experiences both direct and indirect, fiction and nonfiction. This book is my truth, my autobiography, words that are written on the pages of me. The irony of the title is not to be lost on the reader; though I’m a man of few words, I have so much to say. I discovered a passion for poetry at the age of fourteen. During this period, I was going through a lot of changes in my life. I had just moved with my grandma to what was a spiritually binding neighborhood and I was just beginning high school. As I felt my childhood was over, I quickly fell into a depression and subsequently dropped out of school. I was confused and overwhelmed by emotions that I’d never felt before. Feeling the need to express myself, I was fatefully inspired to write. I began writing what I call “albums” of conceptual compositions, collections of poems that would later become the chapters of my book. While I didn’t use my entire catalogue for this book, I chose the compositions that I feel best represent my artistic vision. These poems are listed in chronological order, revealing my journey and evolution of words. This book was inspired by my irrepressible need for creative expression. I always thought that I’d write a book somewhere down the line, but that somewhere became here and that here became now. It’s amazing how your destiny has a way of claiming you before you realize your destiny. I used to dream of being a music producer, and I thought that because I dreamed it, this was what I was supposed to be. But my dreams were interrupted when my true calling chose me. Writing became a passion of mine because it allowed me to fully and fearlessly represent myself. Anything I want to be or say can be done with the boundlessness of artistic freedom. I am free to be an artist as I paint images with words. In many ways, writing communicates a message more clearly and profoundly than spoken language. When someone is reading your written word, they are forced to listen and actually hear what you have to say. I believe that the hardships I went through as a teenager was for this purpose, to write these words that tell my story. It might even seem like a gift from depression, but I believe that my calling is a gift from God. For this reason, it is my obligation to share my gift. I just might inspire someone else to write as they read my story and find the motivation to tell their own. My goal, through my words, is to be the impetus that provides people with a deeper respect for the craft. What I hope to accomplish with this book is to have people gain a more profound understanding of me. I believe that I have a lot to offer through my words for those who are interested and willing to listen. To many people, I’m a man of few words because I don’t often reveal myself through my personality or my existence. What I want these and other people to know is that there’s more to me; I’m not just one-dimensional. I’m a host of imperfections and contradictions with a multifaceted depth. I encourage you to learn me, to read my words and not my silence.

Author : N. "Karmakat" Franzetti
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781312171473

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So close, yet so far II by N. "Karmakat" Franzetti Pdf

Just when things couldn't get any better... Karmakat has settled into a life with his mate and adopted family, wanting for nothing more than a normal life. As normal as it can be for someone in his situation, anyways. Then something changes. Can the hope of a new future mend a soul torn apart by its past? The story of our group continues as they face new trials, encounter new situations and uncover revelations about old enemies and their own legacies.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Syed H Jaffar
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780595326327

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So Close, Yet So Far Apart by Syed H Jaffar Pdf

So Close, Yet So Far Apart--Stopping the Abuse of Others is a book that shares the cardinal eight powerful, yet simple ways we can apply today to begin handling difficult challenges, such as tyrants' lust of power, religious gurus' destructive views, human idiosyncrasies, illiteracy, and poverty to make life meaningful. It discusses the principle of--different realities-so that we can understand, accept, and respect other people, cultures, and religions. Author Syed H. Jaffar also points out the profound similarities in each major religion[s golden rule which asks people to put greater emphasis on doing good deeds toward fellow human beings than on worshipping God. This profound resemblance among religions and our shared ancestor--Abraham--should make us so close, says Jaffar, yet, because of the calamity of the abuse of others, we have become so far apart. Once we have truly earned the right to be counted among great human beings as depicted in The Life Model, Jaffar affirms, the love we feel for people, the respect we have for other cultures and religions, and the compassion we have for our own religion's uniqueness will increase dramatically. Hence, we will gain inner and lasting peace for our ultimate goal of treasuring life.

Author : N. Franzetti
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300725114

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So close... yet so far by N. Franzetti Pdf

Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781591178

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So Near and Yet So Far by Martin Bowman Pdf

This is the second volume in a meticulously researched four-part series that provides a comprehensive insight into the aerial exploits at Operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944. In an interesting method of presenting the information, the authorÕs arrangement of British, American, Dutch and German personal narrative interspersed with factual material offers a more personalized view of the war through the eyes of the hard-pressed Allied airborne troops who were actually there in the thick of the action. They take you steadily through the bitter house-to-house fighting in Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem and the fanatical attempts to keep open the narrow road to permit XXX Corps to reach and relieve Colonel John FrostÕs men, outnumbered and out-gunned at Arnhem Bridge. They reveal the frustration and bitter disappointment in the battles of the drop zones, the bloody fight for the bridges across the Rhine and the almost suicidal second and third lifts to re-supply the troops holding on precariously, fighting desperately, tenaciously and bravely to prevent their positions being overrun in the face of overwhelming enemy superiority. Stories of individual heroism act to humanize this period of wartime history, which is often reduced to mere facts. Timelines detail the day-to-day events happening in all areas of the battle both on the ground and in the air and also add weight to the story in hand, whilst carefully selected archive images work to supplement the text perfectly.

Author : Nina Lykke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350149748

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Vibrant Death by Nina Lykke Pdf

Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book's ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonial, queerfeminist poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldua. The book's posthuman deexceptionalizing of human death unfurls together with a collection of poetry, and autobiographical stories. They are analysed through the lens of a posthuman, queerfeminist revision of the method of autophenomenography (phenomenological analysis of autobiographical material). Nina Lykke explores the speaking position of a mourning, queerfeminine ”I”, who contemplates the relationship with her dead beloved lesbian life partner. She reflects on her enactment of processes of co-becoming with the phenomenal and material traces of the deceased body, and the new assemblages with which it has merged through death's material metamorphoses: becoming-ashes through cremation, and becoming-mixed-with-algae-sand when the ashes were scattered across a seabed made of fiftyfive million-year-old, fossilized algae. It is argued that the mourning “I”'s intimate bodily empathizing (theorized as symphysizing) with her deceased, queermasculine beloved life partner facilitates the processes of vitalist-material and spiritual-material co-becoming, and the rethinking of death from a new and different perspective than that of the sovereign, philosophical subject.

Author : Lloyd Steffen,Nate Hinerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781848881730

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Death, Dying, Culture: An Interdisciplinary Interrogation by Lloyd Steffen,Nate Hinerman Pdf

This inter- and multi-disciplinary volume examines how culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are re

Author : Maura E. Hametz,Heidi Schlipphacke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501313455

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Sissi’s World by Maura E. Hametz,Heidi Schlipphacke Pdf

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1U8W

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The Heiress of Greenhurst by Ann Sophia Stephens Pdf

Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433076022528

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The Heiress by Ann Sophia Stephens Pdf

Author : Ann Sophia Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433067297386

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The Works of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens by Ann Sophia Stephens Pdf

Author : ANN S. STEPHENS
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE HEIRESS OF GREENHURST AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by ANN S. STEPHENS Pdf

The Heiress of Greenhurst: An Autobiography by Ann S. Stephens is a compelling narrative of a woman's journey through life. From the trials and triumphs of her youth to her ascension as the heiress of Greenhurst, this autobiography captures the essence of human resilience. Stephens' raw and candid narrative makes this a must-read for fans of autobiographies and historical narratives. Experience a life well-lived with The Heiress of Greenhurst: An Autobiography by Ann S. Stephens. Order your copy now!

Author : Laurie Beth Jones
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401303877

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Jesus in Blue Jeans by Laurie Beth Jones Pdf

The sequel to Jesus, CEO draws on the New Testament to reveal how the life and ministry of Jesus Christ is relevant in the modern world, presenting a daily course of reflective action to help readers put spirituality to practical use in every aspect of work and daily life.