Best Patient Ever. How to navigate your health care in a paper gown and booties and make it look good!

by Patrice Ardiere

Overview

While we all face health issues in our lives. We don't have to face them without humor or optimism. You can take your power with you into every medical moment. If you do you just might find that not only does it have a great healing influence, but can also lift you to achieve what some consider impossible.

You are already all you need to be. My book is dedicated to you, and everyone you know, and everyone they know, and everyone who loves everyone who will find themselves in a paper gown and booties; and I believe in all of you to make it look good!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162693406
Publisher:	Patrice Ardiere
Publication date:	08/24/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	543 KB

About the Author

From infancy, it seemed as though Pat's frequent travels through health care were inevitable.

Pediatric Ophthalmology specialists determined that she was going blind and would lose her sight completely by 16 years of age. (She didn't.)

Many childhood illnesses plagued her causing her to repeat First Grade, and some feared that she would never be able to enjoy school like other young children. (She did.)

Managing school with a weak immune system and failing vision wasn't easy. (She found a way.)

In her early teens, she began writing and sharing her life experiences and quirky sense of humor with others.

In her twenties and thirties, Pat endured endometriosis, postpartum depression, PMS, PMDD, followed by more depression. Later, Asthma and a herniated L5 disk challenged her.

"L5..." she would say, "is the designated driver for all future back problems." (And it was.)

In her late forties, chronic infections led to a diagnosis of CLL - Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (a non- Hodgkin's Lymphoma), and so began a fourteen-year journey that involved four medical teams, repeat chemotherapy regimes, remissions, and relapses. Followed by a bone marrow transplant, and finally in January 2015, admission into a research study for CLL at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Although there were many follow-ups, side-effects, and return visits, she has been cancer-free for five years.

While Pat can't predict if her health issues will return, she is certain of one thing. With her Best Patient Ever status and personal empowerment leading the charge, anything is possible.

Her Life-long struggle to wellness has now become her passion and devotion to patients everywhere. She will always strive to inspire strength, empowerment, and hopefully, a few chuckles along the way.

Pat has many more writing projects underway, both non-fiction and fiction. All focused on empowerment and whimsy. After all, life is nothing without a little whimsy! Writing is her passion. At least until she finds a market for those used exam gowns and booties. When that happens, she will probably be able to launch an empire!

See more from Pat at BestPatientEver.com and PatriceArdiere.com