Care Giver: A Memoir

By Patrick D. McKearn

Caregiver is the story of New York musicians Linda Gibbs and Patrick McKearn and their five year cancer journey through treatment, recovery, healing and spiritual transformation. Told in the first person present voice, it captures the immediacy and detail of their day-to-day ups and downs as they progress through a path familiar to many but rarely told in such vivid detail.The healing power of music emerges through lyrical descriptions of their concerts and recordings. The book broadens into the nature of care and giving, how the line between caregiver and patient begins to blur and raise the question of who cares for who. Throughout we see the resilience and creative spirit of Pat and Linda rising to the challenges of Ovarian Cancer, opening and sharing their process with a large and varied community of friends and healers. What begins as an account of an illness transforms into a love story, a musician's tale and a story of personal transformation. From its initial posing of 'que sera' to the final scene, Care Giver is a riveting, compelling account, told with wit, care and unflinching honesty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719907145
• ISBN13: 9781719907149
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"