Tim

Not focused on Dorothy Day; Heavy

Revisado: 11-06-21

I felt as if this book wasn’t as focused on Dorothy Day as I would have liked. It discussed Tamar and her children significantly. I can handle heavy topics, but this felt unnecessarily so at times. It went into the weeds about Tamar’s ex husband’s prior relationship with a man that was fated to end in heartbreak in a Catholic setting. I didn’t feel this was necessary given his peripheral relationship to Dorothy herself.

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Fascinating and informative

Revisado: 10-28-21

I truly enjoyed listening to this title.

The book is beautifully written and performed. It touches on all aspects of the author’s experience of illness - physical, professional, interpersonal, spiritual - and his gradual descent into a world of unconventional treatments.

I found myself listening to the parts of the book that describe his experimental treatments somewhat incredulously. But I appreciated that he acknowledged that these things are unproven (from a clinical standard) and that the “evidence” came from online crowdsourcing of Lyme patients. I think, for scientists/medical professionals like myself, it has to be read as the narrative of one individual patient, whose struggles, though unique, could certainly have much in common with many others. The author asks questions about the current standards for treating Lyme disease which seem to deserve consideration by experts, but as I am not an expert in this field, I largely ponder his discussion of the science as interesting and walk away.

As a Catholic, I appreciated hearing about the spiritual aspects of his experience.

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