Dance Interrupted: For Lessons About Life, And After - Softcover

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The year is 1990. Less than three years into their dancing, productive middle-aged marriage, the author s husband Arne, noticed a lump under his chin. A biopsy reveals four malignant lymph nodes and a cancerous growth piercing his carotid artery. A shocking, intensive and painful course of chemotherapy and radiation is described for him. I had worked in the medical field for thirty years. I had seen friends and co-workers go through this drill and I knew Arne would be left a mere shell of his once vibrant, energetic self, in pain and with no quality of life left, what-so-ever.I researched foreign countries for the Stateside disapproved of and sometimes forbidden treatments we were greatly encouraged by what we found. In the end, Arne elected to try the holistic/alternative therapies found in Sedona, Arizona.We fled California and this Self Help memoir: many times humorous, sometimes frustrating, always positive, is the result of our years of practicing what we learned there: Diet, Supplements, Homeopathy, Herbs, Acupressure, Acupuncture, Visualization, Crystal therapy, Meditation, Oxygen therapy, Body work, and hands-on healing that is called by so many different names. We were also shocked at the punishment and treatment Arne received at the hands of conventional medical doctors when once they learned he was not doing chemo and radiation.Yes, Arne died, three years after his diagnosis. Not being given the opportunity to blend the best of both medical and holistic worlds, to have access to an X-ray, Arne developed a second cancer, this time of the lung, until it was too late to fight it completely. He lived a wonderful, productive, fun existence until his last three weeks when he finally accepted Hospice and pain medication. Arne s story contains many lessons for the author, the most important being the way this man lived his life with humor, always a positive outlook, good cheer toward all - And his confirmation to me He returns from the other side to prove to me that there IS life after death and to give me some important messages.

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