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Wait, It Gets Worse
Love, Death, and My Transformation from Control Freak to Human BeingBy Lydia SlabyNarrated by Lydia SlabyLength6h 33m
About this audiobook
"Tender, funny, and deeply uplifting, Wait, It Gets Worse
is about more than facing the unexpected; it's an everywoman's guide to living a life that matters."
—Arianna Huffington
With a voice that is wise, irreverent, and filled with sharp humor,
Wait, It Gets Worse is a story about following all the rules only to learn the hard way that control is a lie and an illusion, and that love will save your life.
Lydia Slaby was thirty-three years old and had everything she believed would make her happy: three fancy private school degrees; a successful husband who was in the inner circles of Barack Obama's presidential campaign; a high-paying job as an attorney—even an enviable yoga practice. But under the surface Lydia's life was in free-fall. Her new marriage was one argument after another, she had a job she never wanted, and for some reason she had begun to rapidly lose weight and turn a strange shade of yellowish-green. When she made a doctor's appointment to talk about the toll of extreme stress, she was instead admitted with a diagnosis of lymphoma.
As a cancer survivor, Lydia tries to piece back together her marriage, her career, and her own worth. She begins to rewrite her value as a human being and build her own version of faith until, finally, she is moving forward instead of back. It's an imperfect rebirth, but "perfection" is something she must abandon if she is to at last find the perspective that will open a new, calm, healthy life.
Audiobook details
GenreHealth and Wellness, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byLydia Slaby
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 19, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Openingcredits
10Marriage
2Prologue
11Backward
3Diagnosis
12Fertility
4Chaos
13Heart
5Cancer
14Dismemberment
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6Michael
15Death
7Grace
16Forward
8Hairoptional
17Epilogue
9Purpose
18Closingcredits
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