By: Dennis Pyritz, RN

Dennis Pyritz, RN — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:41:02 +0000

Open invitation to you and your readers to participate in the Being Cancer Book Club. This month we are discussing “The Light Within: the Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer”. “When young gynecologic oncology fellow Lois Ramondetta was first summoned to the room of a new ovarian cancer patient, neither she nor the forty-nine-year-old professor of religion she encountered named Deborah Sills thought they had much in common. They certainly had no idea that they were about to embark on a transcendent odyssey that would become a soul-deep friendship. Now their heartfelt story, The Light Within, follows these two women through a decade of friendship and “big lives”—husbands, children, friends, and careers—ultimately crossing the country and traveling to foreign lands, where they spoke and wrote together about the intersection of doctors, patients, and spirituality. Both women searched together and openly for answers with honesty and intimacy until Deborah passed away in the spring of 2006.”
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Take care, Dennis

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:47:03 +0000

I keep track of my diagnosis dates too. I bet a lot of us do – everyone remembers the day cancer sideswiped their lives.

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By: Dennis Pyritz, RN

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