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A review by realisticreader98
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir by Delia Ephron
5.0
✨a second chance at love, a second chance at life, this story was an absolutely amazing recounting of delia ephron losing her husband jerry, finding her husband peter, and surviving AML—a rare form of leukemia that had also taken the life of her older sister, nora, just a few years before delia’s diagnosis.
✨this book reallllly triggered my health anxieties. every single one. but reading it in a public place (work during my lunch breaks) forced me to learn how to regulate myself. which also made me realize that I need to learn how to be better at emotional regulation. Lol.
✨I had a few favorite parts but this one really stuck out to me (anxiety lol):
“The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry. My brain knows that place. It gravitates toward it no matter how bright the lights or the love and health… [talks about her friend Julia whose husband has Parkinson’s and isn’t doing well] It’s been brutal, and she suffers too, but anxiety is not home for her. Terror isn’t a childhood friend. She can experience terror and let it go. But I am conditioned. My brain gives terror a home.”
✨YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Delia is such an anxious girl, pessimist, etc. and this part above realllllllly hit home. so… go read this book!
✨this book reallllly triggered my health anxieties. every single one. but reading it in a public place (work during my lunch breaks) forced me to learn how to regulate myself. which also made me realize that I need to learn how to be better at emotional regulation. Lol.
✨I had a few favorite parts but this one really stuck out to me (anxiety lol):
“The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry. My brain knows that place. It gravitates toward it no matter how bright the lights or the love and health… [talks about her friend Julia whose husband has Parkinson’s and isn’t doing well] It’s been brutal, and she suffers too, but anxiety is not home for her. Terror isn’t a childhood friend. She can experience terror and let it go. But I am conditioned. My brain gives terror a home.”
✨YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Delia is such an anxious girl, pessimist, etc. and this part above realllllllly hit home. so… go read this book!