Leukemia for Chickens

By Roger Madoff

Book Overview

Roger Madoff was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002. After enduring two years of chemotherapy and radiation, two stem-cell transplants and numerous immuno-suppressive treatments, he felt strong enough to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615141048
• ISBN13: 9780615141046
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Jennifer Madoff
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

incredible candor and courage

once started, i could not put the book down! an incredible first person brutally frank and honest account of a young man's difficult journey through a terrible ordeal.

For healers in training

This funny, brave, honest little book educates and edifies. I recommend it to all, but foremost to those training to be healers. I know of no finer introduction to disease then the one communicated here with careful, journalistic prose. As a doctor, it taught me more about the experience of illness than any grand rounds or medical school lecture. The author shows us that the great battle that is terminal illness is fought in many ways and in many places. As we interact with patients as therapists, nurses, and doctors we have an opportunity through our actions to honor this battle or to miss that opportunity. We are summoned here to know the experience of illness more deeply and with this understanding to act with far greater sympathy and compassion. It has my highest recommendation.

READ THIS BOOK

LEUKEMIA FOR CHICKENS is a personal and emotional account of one man's battle against Acute Mylogenous (sp) Leukemia. It is a must-read for anyone who's life has been touched by cancer. This book is the touching story of how Roger Madoff faces a horrific ordeal, with the love and unwavering support of his wife, Jennifer along with friends and family, with a grace and dignity that is unimaginable. The book is written in a very conversational and accessible way, making it a compelling and quick, although sometimes painful, read. The first person account of Roger's struggles will offer insight to anyone who is fighting against cancer or loves someone who is fighting against it. I feel more enriched for having read this book and for bringing Roger and his family and friends into my life.

An inspiring book from a wonderful friend

Roger Madoff is and was one of my best friends, and my review of his book is inevitably biased because of that fact. One might imagine that a story about a 30-year-old getting an ultimately fatal disease would make for a depressing story, but I believe that what makes Roger's book so amazing is that he manages to make you feel good about life even as he recounts the extremely difficult three-and-a-half years that he endured fighting leukemia. Roger succeeded in doing this because his book explains how he managed to maintain his courage, his good humor and his love for family and friends even as both the leukemia and the treatment attacked his body. I hope this book will allow many others to have the same fortune that I did in knowing Roger.