This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B08BFBPJVT | August 18, 2020 | 8 hrs and 3 mins | MP3@64 kbps | 221 MB
Dakshana Bascaramurty (Author), Farah Merani, A. K. Wilson (Narrator)
English | ASIN: B08BFBPJVT | August 18, 2020 | 8 hrs and 3 mins | MP3@64 kbps | 221 MB
Dakshana Bascaramurty (Author), Farah Merani, A. K. Wilson (Narrator)
For readers and listeners of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 33, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son.
i can't make you feel what it's like to be a young, dumb, naïve 30-year-old sitting in the back of a walk-in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more than i can show you what it feels like to have a husband or father or child who's dying and knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it. i can only describe to you how i feel today. angry. at peace. scared. grateful. a giant, spiky, flowering heart-shaped bouquet of contradictions.
Layton Reid was a globe-trotting, risk-taking, sunshine-addicted bachelor - then came a melanoma diagnosis. Cancer startled him out of his arrested development - he returned home to Halifax to work as a wedding photographer - and remission launched him into a new, passionate life as a husband and father-to-be. When the melanoma returned, now at Stage IV, Layton and his family put all their stock into a punishing alternative therapy, hoping for a cure. This Is Not the End of Me recounts Layton's three-year journey as he tried desperately to stay alive for his young son, Finn, and then found purpose in preparing Finn for a world without him.