I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted-and ALS

I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted-and ALS
by Darcy Wakefield

I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted-and ALS
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Author: Darcy Wakefield
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-21
ISBN: 1569243530
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Book Review: Inspiring and soul searching....
Summary: 5 Stars

"I Remember Running" is the first memoir by Darcy Wakefield about learning to live with a terminal disease, from the diagnosis through the first year. It is a story of undying optimism, hope and humor. As Darcy points out about living "no one makes it out alive".

For those English Professors out there (Darcy) please forgive this engineers inability to string together the words and thoughts with correct grammar, punctuation and prose.

But, I have to say this book does not make me feel sorry for Darcy and her ALS (aka. "The Darcy Wakefield Disease") but makes me want to celebrate how she is living with a disease that many give up hope with. Yes, she does the things she needs to do (that the rest of us put off way to easily) such as will writing, funeral planning, making the hard decision not to marry so as not to financially cripple the man she loves (among other things). But, at the same time she finds the time to write this amazing book, appreciate the small things in life and become a homeowner.

I laughed out load, I cried and I spent a lot of time reflecting on my own life. I look at what I did during the same year that Darcy was diagnosed, fell in love and had a child and with my healthy legs and muscles I can't even compete.

Coincidentally I live in the same town where Darcy grew up, though I never met her. I had to laugh hysterically when she mentions the Christmas Transfer Station notice hanging on the fridge, as we too had one.

I hope, as will the thousands of others that read Darcy's book that someway, somehow there will be time and energies for the next chapter. Though, I would never dream of asking her to take time away from Sam and her mothering :)

I cannot recommend this book enough. Take the time to read something meaningful this fall. If you only have time for one book PICK THIS ONE!

Summary of I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted-and ALS

A little over a year ago, Darcy Wakefield was a single, 33-year-old athletic, workaholic English professor, a vegetarian who had never had a serious health problem or injury. Then she was diagnosed with ALS, and her world turned upside down. I Remember Running is Darcy's story of change and loss and challenges during her first year with ALS, as she struggles to make sense of her diagnosis and redefine herself in the face of this terminal illness. With unflagging courage, wit, and eloquence, Darcy shares what she calls her "fast-forward" life, a life in which she applies for disability, leaves her job, and plans her own funeral as well as meets and moves in with her true love, buys a house, and gives birth to her first child in less time than it takes most of us to accomplish even one of these things. Beautifully written and wholly inspiring, I Remember Running proves that it is possible to live a rich, meaningful life after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, and will move readers to see the world in a different light.

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