Not in Vain A Promise Kept

<p><strong><em>An unflinching chronicle of loss that takes a hard look at the state of medical care in the United States. Kirkus</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>★★★★★ Absolutely powerful heartbreaking and helpful!</em></strong><em> - Reader Review</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>No diagnosis. No explanation from a doctor. No staging or prognosis. </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>The beginning of eight months of nightmare.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>____</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>One moment Melissa was in her mother's hospital room with her mother and sister waiting for the results of a biopsy already four days overdue. The next: a nurse walked in with what looked like nuclear fallout gear and multiple IV bags to tell Melissa's mother Hello Mrs. Burns. </em>I'm here with your chemotherapy to treat your cancer.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>The tears started. The nightmare began and then unwound over an eight-month period of necessary grief...and totally unnecessary suffering.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>In a real-world story that is all-too-relevant </em></strong><em>Not In Vain A Promise Kept</em> chronicles in terrible detail the repeated failures of a broken health care system. </p><p><br></p><p>Medical mistakes poor communication false hope. The helplessness of a woman watching her mother slowly die-and far worse suffering pain and indignities that did not have to happen and never should have: suffering brought on not by disease but by human error and medical mismanagement. Indignities that carved Melissa's mother away one small piece at a time until finally it was just the two of them holding hands late at night in the hospital with her mother suffering yet again another side effect of cancer and a promise asked:</p><p><br></p><p><em>Tell them what happened. Tell them how to keep it from happening again.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>The promise was given. The promise is now being kept.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>This is a book that you will not regret picking up! OnlineBookClub.org</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Readers will cheer... Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Mullamphy does such a masterful job... Foreword Clarion Reviews</em></strong></p>