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The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

Tekijä: Edie Littlefield Sundby

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"Immerse yourself in the amazing story of Edie Littlefield Sundby, who, after being told she had only 3 months to live, survived 79 rounds of chemotherapy, radical liver and lung surgeries, and then walked 800 miles along the California Mission Trail, averaging 14 miles a day, and stopping at life-giving missions to revive her body and her soul."--Publisher's website.… (lisätietoja)
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How would you want to live if you were facing death? In reality we are all facing the end of our lives—some just know that time is short; and anyone with a cancer diagnosis must look into the face of death and make life altering decisions. Edie Littlefield Sundby had to make those decisions when she was given 3 months to live after getting a diagnosis of Stage 4 gallbladder cancer. Would she fight? Would she make peace with her remaining time, or would she go into denial and ignore it until it was too late? Edie decided to fight, it was in her genes; a lesson learned from her hardscrabble upbringing with parents who survived the Depression and the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Quit wasn’t in her vocabulary; it was how she went from dirt poor to a University graduate who then rose to the top of corporations and was starting her own company with her husband.
In San Diego, she was alone when she got her diagnosis; her husband was in Europe on business, her children also far away. Shaken, she left the doctor and drove to a place in the road under a shade tree and as she looked around she saw an old Mission Bell hanging from a rusted pole, and then she called out to God. She had always felt closer to God when she was in Nature, and when the cancer treatments were horrible she would walk and then hike, and in time she remembered that old Mission Bell. She found out that the Mission Bells marked the El Camino Real: the trail that Fr. Junipero Sierra and Franciscan Missionaries walked to build the Missions from Loreto, Mexico to Sonoma, California. She began to dream about walking the El Camino Real. A journey that would push her to her limits of survival.
Since finishing this book I’ve repeatedly told my husband about what it meant to me, and to give him some comfort because he just lost his little brother to brain cancer. This book will touch the lives of people in the battle against cancer. The first part is filled with information about treatments. It is also a must read for adventures, hikers and walkers at all levels. I couldn’t get through the Mexico part of her journey without saying out loud “No way! How could she survive this?” over and over; it just is so amazing. 5 stars. ( )
  PamelaBarrett | Oct 2, 2017 |
It's a funny thing about courage-- it has a malleable nature, and can be applied equally to the mother who lifts a car off of her child or the soldier who who risks his life to save the rest of his unit from enemy fire. Courage is the woman who helped get 2500 Jewish children safe from Nazi-held Poland in WWII, or the 17 year old girl, lone survivor of a plane crash in the wilds of Peru, who followed creeks and rivers, past the piranhas and crocodiles, to get back to civilization. Courage is countless moments in human survival and endurance, against great odds, and incredible hardship. Courage is Edie Littlefield Sundby.

Imagine yourself a strong, vibrant, intelligent woman, physically fit, an avid walker, and practitioner of yoga. You are 55, and have just returned from volunteer work in India with one of your daughters. The abdominal difficulties you experienced while there could easily be attributed to the change in diet, but they persist at home. It is then you discover you have stage 4 cancer of the gall bladder. The prognosis is grim. But, you are Edie Littlefield Sundby, and you are determined to fight, determined to live.

The Mission Walker is Edie's story, told in her own focused voice. Edie guides the reader through the early days of her diagnosis, into the maze of medical treatment, in which, in her determination not to let cancer claim her quickly, she blazed new trails. She blazed past the predicted three month survival. She kept seeking new options, holding fast to her faith and to her family; through chemotherapy, surgeries, through fighting tumors in different parts of her body, and fighting the side effects of the treatments to save her. And then, in remission and in gratitude, she decided to try to walk the California Mission Trail, grateful, thankful to be alive, hoping to light a candle at each of the 21 missions along the way, and thanking God with every step. Edie recounts the amazing journey of following the bells, not knowing how far she would go, leaving that to God, but determined to try.

Yet there's more to The Mission Walker. Edie was determined to walk the portion of El Camino Real that stretched into Mexico, starting from its beginning in Loreto. The mission trail there was not maintained like the one in California; the journey would be very different and very difficult. As she made her plans for this trek, two years after the start of her first walk, her cancer came back. In a three month window between a repeat scan after radiation and surgery, armed with all the information she could find, a well-crafted trail kit, determination, and faith, Edie began the walk that would complete her trek of the mission trail. It's an incredible story, an eye opening journey, also faith filled, but additionally a story of strength of every sort. It is just one more example of Edie's courage.

I have to add a disclaimer here: I know Edie. We met in 2012, and though we only spent one day together, it was a joyful one, celebrating the milestones of our children with our families. Edie and I didn't speak much that day. I knew a little of her story, but now realize where in that incredible fight she was. I was preoccupied, fighting my own medical diagnosis, focused more on the precautions I need to take daily to keep safe than on another's needs (which is a little embarrassing to admit, as I am a nurse, so my career has been focused on helping others with their health.) In the intervening years since we met, I followed her following the bells, but still didn't have a real grasp of the scope of her journey. It took this remarkable memoir to bring the journey, the strength of faith and character needed, into focus. Walk on, Edie. You walk strong. You walk with God. Thank you for letting us walk with you. ( )
  bookczuk | Jul 16, 2017 |
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