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title	:	Carpe Diem : Enjoying Every Day With a Terminal Illness
author	:	Madden, Ed.
publisher	:	Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:	0867207825
print isbn13	:	9780867207828
ebook isbn13	:	9780585208503
language	:	English
subject	Madden, Ed--Health, Multiple myeloma--Patients--United States--Biography, Terminally ill--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	RC280.B6M335 1993eb
ddc	:	362.1/9699/4
subject	:	Madden, Ed--Health, Multiple myeloma--Patients--United States--Biography, Terminally ill--United States--Biography.

Page iii Carpe Diem Making the Most of Every Day With a Serious Illness Ed Madden Sudbury, Massachusetts Boston London Singapore

Page iv Editorial, Sales, and Customer Service Offices Jones and Bartlett Publishers 40 Tall Pine Drive Sudbury, MA 01776 Jones and Bartlett Publishers International Barb House, Barb Mews London W6 7PA UK Copyright 1993 by Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Madden, Ed. Carpe diem : Making the most of every day with a serious illness/Ed Madden p. cm. ISBN 0-86720-782-5 1. Madden, EdHealth. 2. Multiple myelomaPatientsUnited StatesBiography. 3. Terminally illUnited StatesBiography. I. Title. RC280.B6M335 1993 362.196994dc20 [B] 93-12746 CIP Cover design: Bruce Kennett Interior design and production: John A. Servideo Typesetting: Pure Imaging Printed in the United States of America 97 96 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

Page v To Barbara Madden and Laura Madden the two women who share my home and make this journey of mine a daily paradise

Page vii Preface In late June 1990, the several disorders that had been troubling me for over five months were explained by a simple diagnosis: cancer. My doctor outlined with a kindness and sadness that meant much to me, that multiple myeloma is not curable, but that with proper treatment, I should have a few years. My reaction was action. I ran around notifying family and friends, decided on an oncologist, began radiation treatment and tried to keep working, despite some serious pain. Then I sat with Eddie Forry, the publisher of The Reporter, a local paper for which I had been writing a column. We both had already come to the same conclusionthat I should start writing a second column about my new journey. The following pages are filled with most of the columns that I've written every two weeks over the past two and more years. Because they undoubtedly reveal change and growth that is not readily apparent to me, I've left them, with one exception, in the order they appeared. Many people, those ailing, some caregivers and numerous friends, both old and new, have told me that the columns aided in their own journeys. I hope this collection will be a way of reaching out to others, to let them know they're not alone.

Page ix Acknowledgments Although my name alone appears on the title page, this book and the columns that make up its parts were the work of many people. Eddie Forry, publisher of The Reporter, has been involved in my columns from their earliest conceptualizing. His wife and partner, Mary Forry, played a role as typesetter and proofreader. They both played a far greater role as my friends. Many of the staff at The Reporter played a part both in the columns and in the predecessor book that we published: Ginny Aveni, Denise Doherty, Barbara McDonough, and particularly the Mullen sisters, Peggy and Barbie, who are not only involved in my columns, but now, fortunately, in my life. And then there is Sue Asci, about whom I cannot say enough. A friend for many years, my editor at The Reporter for a couple, she's given me more support on this journey than I can ever tell her.

Page 1 The Journey Begins I have just entered upon a new adventure, the most exciting, challenging, spirited experience of all my 53 years. I've discovered I have cancer. Of course, had I been given the choice of a weekend with Kathleen Turner, a sailing trip to Bermuda or cancer, the ailment would most definitely not have won out. But, as in so many of the other wonderful things that have happened to memy birth, choice of parents and siblings, my rearing in Boston, my schooling, my magnificent body and looks, the choice was not mine. Like the new obnoxious kid in class, the cancer is here to stay. I can hate it, fume against it, pout and sulk, but that hurts only me. Or I can put it in its place and go on about my business, and that's what I intend to do. In either case, of course, I still have the cancer. It will be a game, played over the next months or years, a game that eventually the cancer undoubtedly will win, but I will score the maximum number of goals in the meantime. And like any sporting event, it will be the playing that is the fun. But just as Ireland engaged Italy in the recent quarter-finals of the World Soccer cup, knowing the outcome in advance, I will enter my game with gusto and play with all my heart. I'll use the best resources that medical science has to offer me, but I have something even bettermy own will and desire and spirit. We still have only sketchy knowledge of the power of our minds to control our bodies, but we do know it is mighty.

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