{"product_id":"9781954854246","title":"Tracking a Shadow","description":"Author: Edith Forbes\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781954854246\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Girl Friday\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Jun 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir of the author's twenty-five-year, self-designed experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to meet trouble with active resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen novelist Edith Forbes experienced her first episode of multiple sclerosis in 1993, few treatments existed. The famously crippling disease was a medical mystery, its cause unknown and its course unpredictable. The only medical advice Forbes received then was to \"simply live your life.\" She had other ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForbes grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, raised by a widowed mother who met challenges head on. Besides shouldering responsibility for seven children and a cattle ranch, Forbes's dynamo mother had ambitions to change the world. As a forward-thinking woman in a largely male business, she became a model of tenacity and independence for her daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her MS diagnosis, Forbes turned her fear into action, immersing herself in the medical literature to search for ideas. Finding an unexpected connection between the medical information and her own knowledge of agriculture, she embarked on a self-designed experiment that continues to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracking a Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925090189470,"sku":"ING-9781954854246","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781954854246.jpg?v=1782959202","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781954854246","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}