The Luckiest Unlucky Couple
A Medical Love Story
The Luckiest Unlucky Couple
A Medical Love Story
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A late-in-life love story unfolds between two adventurers and then everything changes. When he is cured, she is diagnosed, and what follows is a journey of resilience, courage, and the power of love. The story goes something like this: successful journalist and author, Alicia (Lisa), in her late 50s, is single and mostly happy but has given up on finding love again after her first marriage ended abruptly.
Her friends convince her to at least try Match.com, and she finds the love of her life. Then out of the blue, he is diagnosed with melanoma, which has traveled to his brain. Through immunotherapy, he gets cured. And through the process of his illness, she and his children---not especially close before---become a family. That is the first half of the book.
Not long after he is pronounced cured, she is diagnosed with lung cancer. That is the second half of the book, wherein she struggles with cancer, dying, surrendering to support, gets remarried, and ultimately finds deeper love for all things. The book not only details her emotional journey, it also contains a lot of useful information on cutting-edge immunotherapy techniques, and how to live in the moment when that is not your predisposition. The epilogue, written by her husband, shares life after Lisa's passing. In the appendix the couple shares helpful tips for patients and families wrestling with cancer.
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Table of Contents
2: I Don't Have a Little White Dog
3: Trauma Never Leaves
4: Afghanistan
5: A Constellation of Strangers
6: The Road to Recovery
7: Reclaiming Our Lives
8: The Seizure That Ended the Sailing Trip
9: The New New Normal
10: My Turn
11: We Can Help You
12: The EGFR Jackpot
13: Losing Judy
14: Who Am I With Cancer
15: The Grand Canyon
16: Scanziety
17: C797S and the Cyberknife
18: Dog No. 1
19: Whack the Mole
20: When One Person in Your Boat Is Calm
Epilogue: by David Marsden
Product details
| Published | 05 Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 216 |
| ISBN | 9798216270065 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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