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    The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir
    The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir
    The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir

    Written by Sarah Ramey

    Narrated by Sarah Ramey and Eileen Stevens

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    "A best memoir of 2020" —BookPage

    The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored.

    In her harrowing, defiant, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her devastating symptoms were psychological.
         The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a memoir with a mission: to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions--autoimmune illnesses, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme disease, chronic pain, and many more. Ramey's pursuit of a diagnosis and cure for her own mysterious illness becomes a page-turning medical mystery that reveals a new understanding of today's chronic illnesses as ecological in nature, driven by modern changes to the basic foundations of health, from the quality of our sleep, diet, and social connections to the state of our microbiomes. Her book will open eyes, change lives, and, ultimately, change medicine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 17, 2020
    ISBN9780525496182

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    • 4/5

      Jul 24, 2020

      This is a long, difficult, and sometimes excruciating book to read (or in my case, listen to). But it needs to be done and absorbed. I’ve not experienced any of the issues as the author, so I think my takeaway was somewhat different than what was intended.

      The broad scope seems to be that women need to speak up for healing themselves as well as the world, but I’m thinking first we need to shout out about asshole (& many more swears) traditional medical doctors. Holy crap they’re awful, and this author has had either some good forgiveness or some good forgetting in her life.

      All I keep thinking about is her saying how her doctor dad came around at the end (showing understanding and hearing her thoughts) and how it showed hope for us all. No. If a man cannot see his own daughter being tortured and in pain for over a decade and not listen, there’s a problem. If he finally after a decade hears his daughter rather than relying on what his education and training tells him, there’s a problem. If it took this man so long to do anything to change his own practice, then we sure as shit are going to have a hard time getting other docs with no personal connection to change anytime soon.