Logjam of a Beauteous Mind

A vivid gripping and inspired portrayal of Mona a splendid woman diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer & given 3-6 months to live. And her loving Caregiver who leaves his high-tech firm to stay at home with his frightened wife to help her find the doctors clinical treatment and threads of Hope to empower and transform herself into a feisty Cancer warrior and believer in her own Survival. Until Mona's mind betrays her with a Logjam chemo brain madness and she is dropped by Sloan-Kettering sent home like a soldier with PTSD to face a psychiatric ward and death. How her loving Caregiver's close family team & Orange Juice manage to break Mona's downward spiral!<p> A Universal Love Story. A Beautiful Deeply-Human Well-Written Book. Mona's Story will Move You! It Reads like a Novel. <br>-<i> Author/Editor Marcy Dermansky [The Red Car]</i><p> Karp and his wife Mona were surprised when a doctor diagnosed her with stage 4 lung cancer in 1993. The mother of two in her mid- 50s had never been a smoker.<p> Her chemotherapy had physical side effects...But Mona was most affected cognitively. She called it a 'logjam'-a mental fogginess that marred her short-term memory and concentration. This bright woman a former English teacher who loved travel was now prone to psychotic episodes.<p> Karp's book is both melancholic and engaging. His love and devotion to his wife are without question. He fondly details joyful moments from the couple's meet-cute decades earlier to bouts of happiness they reveled in post-diagnosis. The author's generally unadorned prose in this touching memoir boasts instances of lyricism.<p> An absorbing and moving account of a couple's fight against a terrible disease.<br> - <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><p> No one you Love is forever Dead if you truly Believe their Goodness and Beauty Cannot Perish...For precious moments our Past was not dead; it was not even Past. <i><b>Logjam of a Beauteous Mind </i></b>