When the Diagnosis Is Multiple Sclerosis
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-9392-6 (ISBN)
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Kym Orsetti Furney was a 34-year-old physician enjoying her exciting career and life with her husband and young daughter when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. At first terrified, Furney has rebounded from the shock of diagnosis and-empowered by information, treatment, and support-continues her work as a doctor, teacher, wife, and parent despite the challenges of MS. Here she offers help and hope to other people coping with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Her valuable insights into this incurable and unpredictable disease help readers understand the physical, emotional, and practical aspects of MS. Reflecting on her own experience after diagnosis, she discusses the many challenges patients face-from depression and overcoming the fear of injection medications, to how and when to tell others that you have MS, to the disease's impact on career and family. Readers will find in Furney an informed and reassuring partner, a physician who understands the facts while embracing the conviction that people with MS can enjoy a full and rewarding life.
In an appendix, she discusses scientific aspects of the disease as well as the side effects of common medications taken by people with MS. This medically up-to-date and compassionate book offers guidance not only to patients and their families but also to healthcare professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, and physical and occupational therapists.
Kym Orsetti Furney, M.D., is in private practice at Mecklenberg Medical Group in North Carolina and is a clinical associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Being Diagnosed
Chapter 2. Grieving
Chapter 3. The Psychological Challenges of MS
Chapter 4. Facing the Needle: The MS Medications
Chapter 5. Whom Do I Tell and When?
Chapter 6. Impact on Our Jobs
Chapter 7. Having Children
Chapter 8. Staying Healthy and Fit
Chapter 9. Managing the Fatigue of Multiple Sclerosis
Chapter 10. Could I Be Depressed?
Chapter 11. You and Your Doctor
Chapter 12. Dealing with Disability
Chapter 13. Getting Involved with the MS Community
Chapter 14. Finding Balance
Conclusion
Appendix: The Facts About MS
Resources
References
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.12.2009 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white |
Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 204 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren |
ISBN-10 | 0-8018-9392-5 / 0801893925 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-9392-6 / 9780801893926 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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