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    This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything
    This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything
    This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything
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    This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything

    Written by Amy B. Scher

    Narrated by Amy B. Scher

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    The true story of a fiery young woman's heartwarming and hilarious journey that takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. Along the way, she discovers a world of cultural mayhem, radical medical treatment, and, most importantly, a piece of her life she never even knew she was missing.

    When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life-from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. After exhausting all of her options in the US, she discovered a possible cure-but it was highly experimental, only available in India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her. Knowing the risks, Amy packed her bags anyway and flew across the world hoping to find the ultimate cure.

    This Is How I Save My Life is a powerful and uplifting story of sheer determination for anyone who believes in-or doubts-the existence of miracles and the infinite power of self-healing when it seems like all hope is lost.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781684412419
    This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything
    Author

    Amy B. Scher

    Amy B. Scher is a leading voice in the field of mind-body-spirit healing. As an energy therapist, Amy uses energy therapy techniques to help those experiencing illness and those in need of emotional healing. She has been featured on healthcare blogs, CNN, Curve magazine, Elephant Journal, and the San Francisco Book Review. Amy was also named one of Advocate’s “40 Under 40” for 2013. She lives in California. Visit her at AmyBScher.com

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    • 5/5
      Amazing, amazing, amazing. I’ve had lyme and have it again but even if I haven’t this book is full of wisdom and a beautiful story. True story of healing.
    • 4/5
      After years of symptoms, of being misdiagnosed, even by the reknown Mayo Clinic, Amy finally gets a diagnosis. Stage four Lyme disease, with no known cure, just a slew of drugs that leave her in a pain filled non life. Unable to work, her relationship in tatters, she learns of a stem cell treatment in India that has successfully reversed paralysis in spinal injuries. Though it has not been used for her disease, she sees it as her last hope, applies and is accepted. Accompanied by her parents, she flies from California to Delhi, a whole new and strange world.I enjoyed the way this story was told, naturally, as if she were having a conversation face to face. Her past, her pains, the treatments and medicines that didn't work, her fears and her hope that this will work. The descriptions of India, the street scene, the busyness, the market, the food, all so strange and loud in the beginning, but embraced by the end. Her parents were wonderful, supporting, funny, though her dad suffers from depression, he is fully supportive of his daughter, enamored still of his wife. This is the best type of mrmoir, well told, relateable to those of us who suffer various issues. A good message to remember to never give up, there may be something out there. If not now, maybe in the future.ARC from Edelweiss
    • 5/5
      From Lilac Wolf and StuffThe book is brilliant. I'm in awe of this woman who spent so long losing a battle with Lyme Disease. She went to India for stem cell treatment. The stem cells used, are from a single embryo that was donated to the doctor from a couple who had embryos made up for fertility treatment. When they reached success, they wanted to give something back.It's a very easy going book, being that it's mostly made up of blog entries that Amy wrote while undergoing treatment. And reading about her healing is just amazing. Why are we not doing this here???It's also a wonderful study of the culture shock when a San Francisco gal goes to one of the largest cities in India, Delhi. I'm still in love with India, but I'm less eager to move there. lolAmy doesn't really pull any stops. She's working her butt off to get rid of the Lyme and all the things that go along with it, and she's sharing it all right here with us.