Audio only
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
Show all chaptersShow less
6Michael
15Death
7Grace
16Forward
8Hairoptional
17Epilogue
9Purpose
18Closingcredits
Your Body Already KnowsNidhi Pandya Bhanshali9h 7m4.7 (360)$16 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (384)$20 · $0.00
Hour of the HeartIrvin D. Yalom, Benjamin Yalom8h 19m4.6 (2.3K)$26 · $0.00
The Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliPatanjali4h 8m4.5 (18.5K)$6 · $0.00
The Lost VoiceGreta Morgan8h 30m4.7 (285)$26 · $0.00
Healthy Kids, Happy KidsElisa Song14h 18m4.6 (760)$33 · $0.00
Eat It!Jordan Syatt, Michael Vacanti4h 40m4.6 (1.5K)$20 · $0.00
Consent Laid BareChanel Contos7h 11m4.5 (1.7K)$24 · $0.00
How to Make Disease DisappearRangan Chatterjee5h 26m4.5 (3.5K)$24 · $0.00
The Complete Herbal (Annotated)Nicholas Culpeper29h 8m4.5 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
A Plague Upon Our HouseScott W. Atlas MD10h 37m4.5 (3.4K)$20 · $0.00
The Cancer CodeDr. Jason Fung10h 48m4.5 (5.3K)$29 · $0.00
The Gift of TherapyIrvin Yalom7h 39m4.5 (38.8K)$26 · $0.00
EarlySarah DiGregorio9h 47m4.5 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
Bottle of LiesKatherine Eban14h 25m4.4 (12K)$33 · $0.00
The 36-Hour DayNancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins17h 13m4.4 (9.2K)$28 · $0.00
FlooredSara Reardon10h 36m4.5 (1K)$29 · $0.00
Radical RemissionKelly A. Turner9h 26m4.4 (8.1K)$29 · $0.00
The Sinatra SolutionStephen T. Sinatra MD9h4.5 (899)$20 · $0.00
The Songaminute ManSimon McDermott6h 12m4.5 (280)$24 · $0.00
The Way of RoninTu Lam12h 9m4.9 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
Matters of the HeartJacinta Nampijinpa Price9h 35m4.8 (359)$29 · $0.00
How to Test Negative for StupidJohn Kennedy8h 13m4.7 (9.7K)$28 · $0.00
Bad Fat Black GirlSesali Bowen6h 32m4.7 (2.8K)$24 · $0.00
Send MeMarty Skovlund, Joe Kent8h 10m4.7 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Annotated)John Muir10h 13m4.7 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m4.7 (3.2K)$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m4.7 (5K)$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (384)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
You may also like
The Breastfeeding Book, Revised EditionMartha Sears RN, William Sears MD14h 4m4.3 (1.6K)$23 · $0.00
The Healthy Pregnancy BookWilliam Sears MD, Martha Sears RN18h 11m4.2 (660)$25
The Weight of HimEthel Rohan11h 14m3.9 (1.3K)$20
The Wound DresserWalt Whitman5h 17m4.2 (1.6K)$2.30
Babyproofing Your MarriageStacie Cockrell5h 43m3.6 (1.6K)$24 · $0.00
Ali's Well That Ends WellAli Wentworth4h 2m3.9 (3.2K)$20 · $0.00
Not the Last GoodbyeDavid Servan-Schreiber2h 53m4.1 (785)$16 · $0.00
Unbreak My HeartToni Braxton7h 43m4.1 (2.5K)$26 · $0.00
EarlySarah DiGregorio9h 47m4.5 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
Beautiful BoyDavid Sheff11h 29m4.2 (133.3K)$21
You Ought To Do a Story About MeTed Jackson10h 16m4.3 (538)$29 · $0.00
Funny FarmLaurie Zaleski8h 10m4.3 (9.3K)$20 · $0.00
Back, After the Break: a memoir from one of Australia's most loved celebrities, about life, love and living with mental illness - powerful, dark, funny and heartwrenching.Osher Günsberg11h 30m4.3 (2.3K)$29 · $0.00
Losing MusicJohn Cotter7h 5m4.1 (395)$17 · $0.00
Chosen by a HorseSusan Richards6h 26m4.2 (11.4K)$14
What a Fool BelievesMichael McDonald, Paul Reiser10h 57m4.3 (3.9K)$29 · $0.00
Unchain Your BrainDaniel G. Amen MD, David E. Smith MD7h 58m4.0 (594)$20
Running Is a Kind of DreamingJ. M. Thompson10h 22m3.9 (551)$29 · $0.00
8 Keys to Stress ManagementElizabeth Anne Scott6h 52m4.0 (129)$20
HELP! Someone I Love Has CancerJoel Hughes3h 20m4.2 (31)$17