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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: lucky life interrupted
    sub title: a memoir of hope
  name:
    name part: Brokaw, Tom.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 230 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change--a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life. Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage and family, many friends, and a brilliant journalism career culminating in his twenty-two years as anchor of the NBC Nightly News and as bestselling author. But in the summer of 2013, when back pain led him to the doctors at the Mayo Clinic, his run of good luck was interrupted. He received shocking news: He had multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer. Friends had always referred to Brokaw's "lucky star," but as he writes in this inspiring memoir, "Turns out that star has a dimmer switch." Brokaw takes us through all the seasons and stages of this surprising year, the emotions, discoveries, setbacks, and struggles--times of denial, acceptance, turning points, and courage. After his diagnosis, Brokaw began to keep a journal, approaching this new stage of his life in a familiar role: as a journalist, determined to learn as much as he could about his condition, to report the story, and help others facing similar battles. That journal became the basis of this wonderfully written memoir, the story of a man coming to terms with his own mortality, contemplating what means the most to him now, and reflecting on what has meant the most to him throughout his life. Brokaw also pauses to look back on some of the important moments in his career: memories of Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the morning of September 11, 2001, in New York City, and more. Through it all, Brokaw writes in the warm, intimate, natural voice of one of America's most beloved journalists, giving us Brokaw on Brokaw, and bringing us with him as he navigates pain, procedures, drug regimens, and physical rehabilitation. Brokaw also writes about the importance of patients taking an active role in their own tr…
  abstract: "Tom Brokaw had led a lucky life--marrying his childhood sweetheart (they have been married for 51 years), rising to fame in the journalism world on the Today Show and as the NBC Nightly News anchor for 22 years, publishing the world-renowned book The Greatest Generation--when suddenly he took two inexplicable falls. Nagging back pain led him to the doctors at Mayo, who had shocking news: he had multiple myeloma, the treatable but incurable blood cancer. Brokaw leads the readers through his decision to keep a journal of experiences, during a year of denial, acceptance, struggle, and his courageous battle to get the cancer under control and to go on with his life, even as he reflects on the things he thought about, during a year in a life interrupted: news stories of special significance to him, lessons learned about family and friendship, a man coming to terms with aging and his own mortality. Written in Brokaw's natural, warm voice, this candid, intimate book is a memoir of understanding and empowerment, of the importance of a patient taking charge of his or her condition, of understanding aging, the importance of family and relationships, the role of caretakers and coordinated care, of gratitude for a good life"--
  note: Tom Brokaw.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Brokaw, Tom
    topic: Health
  subject:
    topic: Multiple myeloma
    topic: Patients
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Multiple myeloma
    topic: Treatment
  subject:
    topic: Physician and patient
  subject:
    topic: Television news anchors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Television journalists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL / Physician & Patient
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
  classification: RC280.B6 B76 2015
  classification: 616.99/4180092 B
  classification: BIO026000 MED074000 SOC057000
  identifier: 9781400069699 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 1400069696 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780679604662 (ebook)
  identifier: 2015008653
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150508
    record change date: 20151105200444.0
    record identifier: in00003534613
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng