With the waterways and mist-covered mountains of Southeast Alaska as backdrop, Cathy Cuenin invites the reader into her own very personal story. You will find it easy to immerse yourself in her memoir as she takes you back and forth between her early years in Alaska, living aboard tugboats, and her later challenges with a life-threatening illness and lung transplant. Cuenin's adventuresome Alaskan life is turned upside down in one moment when she is suddenly unable to catch her breath. She is diagnosed with a disease that will rob her of all breath, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM. In clear and heart-felt language, Cuenin takes the reader along on her medical journey. She eloquently expresses the reality of pain, fear, and falling...and then standing up, healing, and cherishing.Learn how one woman comes to grips with leaving the land she loves and meets the challenge of life slipping away.
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