Beschrijving

A memoir of suffering and salvation elevated by its heroine/narrator. In 1950, Chun’s graduate-school career was cut short when she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, an incurable autoimmune disorder that causes the body to attack itself. The author spent the next 50 years trying to be a model wife and mother while plagued by bouts of disabling pain and fatigue. For this book, Chun draws on the 53 volumes of journals she kept for 50-plus years, which provide a minute-by-minute record of the progress of her life and illness. Her account is less self-help and more memoir, but readers are privy to Chun’s experiments with Chinese medicine, acupuncture, vitamin and herbal supplements, and the rigorous food and exercise plans that she developed over the years to supplement Western medicine’s inadequate solutions for her ailment. The author is deeply Christian, ascribing to the positive philosophies of Rev. Robert Schuller of the Crystal Cathedral Ministeries. Her urge to other rheumatoid arthritis sufferers to \