Fighting My War and Keeping My Peace: A Personal Struggle with Chronic Illness

Paula Masso Carnes

	Format	ISBN	Price
	Color (8.5x8.5)	9781420877236	$ 23.70

This book has rare qualities: it says much with few words, it is real and hopeful simultaneously. Paula is someone who understands very well what she is talking about.

James L. Schaller, MD, Master of Arts in Religion, Specializing in Treatment-Resistant Illnesses

Paula writes from a brutally frank place, but in such a way that there is a lush experience from which I can glean.

Patricia Fero, Director Wisconsin Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association, Inc.

Paula Carnes examines the devastation and the struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme Disease, bringing to it all the resources of her heart, her soul and her lucid intellect.

Michael S. Allen, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and author, living for 14 years with ME/CFS

Paula writes with passion and personal knowledge of the horrors of living with chronic illness. Her clear, concise and cogent prose helps us all keep the faith when such illness steals our life away.

Tom Hennessy, founder of RESCIND, Inc., a patient advocacy group

Fighting My War and Keeping My Peace describes the private journey of a patient living with an illness that seems to have no end. Paula Masso Carnes describes in prose and poetry the frightening realization that she has been sick for two months with no idea what is wrong. Seven months later she is still too sick to work and resigns from her career.

Used to controlling her life with logic and will power, Paula now finds that she must fight for effective treatment while finding peace with herself as she endures an illness that has continued years. She writes about loss, despair, friendships, purpose, and hope. Paula answers the question, “How do you fight a war with chronic illness and still keep your peace?”

Paula Masso Carnes has led three lives giving her a rich source of experience for her writing. Educated in theology and religion she has worked as a Bible teacher and Christian education director with published curriculum guides and inspirational articles in this area.

Her second career as a reading specialist and teacher in the South Carolina public schools paralleled the time of racial integration in the south. During this time she wrote a curriculum guide for a reading lab.

This career ended abruptly with the onset of a severe illness. She used this as an opportunity to invent her third life, patient advocate and biotech researcher for an investment firm, as she searched for effective treatment.

Several of her published medical and advocacy articles, such as “Is There a Balm in Gilead and How Do We Get There?” can be found at these links:

http://tinyurl.com/95wu8
http://tinyurl.com/ct5w6
http://tinyurl.com/c3lfy

http://heh.pl/&1Gj

Is There Life after a Death?

"He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." John 11:25

Certainly there is life after a death.

Life is always about something dying,

And something being born.

I have lost

My health

My energy

My voice

My mind

My income

My identity

If you feel that the same thing has happened to you

Look down in the ground around the grave of your self.

What is coming up

Out of the soil of you

That is longing to live?