This Thin Place

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Surely time should stop, suspended by the tragedy of a serious disease?Surely life should become embalmed, preserved from the buffets of minutiae.Surely one should be exempt from laundry.When Sandy Glum, a high school teacher, was first diagnosed with rectal cancershe chose to record the ups and downs of her post-diagnosis life in a series of blogpostings. Most of us would choose to keep the challenges of cancer-the ruthlesstoll it all takes on the body, family, and life-and the thoughts they provoke, forprivate reflection and introspection. Sandy chose to share so that we could betterunderstand the world and life of someone with cancer."Life is pain, Highness, " said Wesley Buttercup in The Princess Bride, and it iswith these words that Sandy summed up her fears and diminishing hope. Fearfulof being a "whiner, " and aware of the need to be strong and courageous for heryoung family, Sandy muses on what she sees as her multiple failed attempts tolive up to her self-imposed expectations of bravery. Her self-deprecating accountsoverflow with endearing and captivating honesty during what is unarguably one ofthe most vulnerable times of her life. Tongue-in-cheek, she pores over the bizarrerites of the cancer patient-from PICC lines to hair loss-the distressing changesin relationships, the confounding wrestle with mortality, and the significance offaith in the light of it all.This book offers a selection of entries from her blog Damned Near Killed Him.The entries were compiled by her friend, Sandy Oshiro Rosen (author of Bare-TheMisplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing), who also contributed the Foreword andAfterword.It offers an honest, unembellished insight into the private life of Sandy Glum asshe bares herself-body and soul-to deliver a touching and inspiring narrative.