Surviving Your Spouse's Chronic Illness: A Compassionate Guide

by Chris McGonigle

When One's Spouse is Diagnosed with a serious illness, two lives are devastated. The partner is a victim, too. Author Chris McGonigle, who was a well spouse for fifteen years, draws on her own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805055738
• ISBN13: 9780805055733
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Owl Bay Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Someone understands!

I have finally found someone who truly understands what I am going through every day. This book presented the REAL- yes the well spouse has anger and feels isolated and desires sex! This book has been a God-send for me! I am so glad that I found it and I recommend it to anyone who finds him or herself in my unfortunate situation.

A must have for the well spouse

This book is wonderful. It helped me so much to know that the feelings that I have are completely normal to the well spouse of a chronically ill patient. From the anger and resentment to the wonderful feelings of love it is all explained here for us.

A Great Help for Caregivers

In this beautifully written book Dr. McGonigle tells in readily understandable language what it means to care for someone you love over an extended period. She has not only written from personal experience but draws on the experiences of others in the same situation, information gathered from extensive interviews and research. This book will interest those even remotely involved in this situation but will be an invaluable source of reinforcement for those unfortunate individuals caught up in this sad circumstance.

Excellent Guide for Spouses

Excellent guide for spouses coping with the chronic illness of their wife or husband. Written in an informed and sensitive manner, this book is sure to be a "godsend" to anyone coping with a new diagnoses of a spouse.

A godsend for partners whose spouses are ill.

A wonderfully frank, caring work that deals with the reality of being the well spouse with a chronically ill partner. Addressing the issues of denial, anger, sex, and money, among others, the author shares her own experiences, and those of numerious other couples in coping with the emotional trauma of a partner's long term illness. The information should relieve lots of guilt, and give well spouses a "first aid kit" of devices to aid their own well-being.