Me and My Shadow

Me and My Shadow – memoirs of a cancer survivor, is a brutally honest account of one teenager’s struggle to understand and deal with the most feared diagnosis known to society: cancer.

At 18 years of age, John Walker Pattison was thrust onto a roller coaster ride of emotional turbulence - his innocence cruelly stripped from him; his fate woven into the tapestry of life.

After years of failed chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments that ravaged his physical frame and almost destroyed his psychological stability – his parents were told that he would not survive. Yet, today, he is one of the longest surviving cancer patients in the UK.

Eight years after his unexpected recovery, the news that all parents fear, his daughter is diagnosed with terminal leukaemia. Yet like her father, she too would defy the odds and go on to become an international swimmer.

Pattison turned his life full circle and became a cancer nurse specialist at the same hospital that made his diagnosis decades earlier. He prescribes chemotherapy and cares for individuals with the same cancers experienced by both him and his daughter.

Throughout his journey, Pattison's inspirations were the space rock legends, Hawkwind. He would get to play on stage with his heroes at the Donnington Festival in 2007.

More significantly, he found solace throughout his cancer journey in the history and spirituality of the Lakota Sioux Nation. In 2018, he would spend time on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with the indigenous people of South Dakota. The same people who, unknowingly, supported him through life's greatest challenge: cancer.

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Boost your career with ChatGPT

 

Boost your career with ChatGPT

by Aileen Johnson

"Unlock your full potential and skyrocket your career with the power of ChatGPT! 'Boost your career with ChatGPT' is the ultimate guide to harnessing the power of OpenAI's cutting-edge language model. Written by expert author and designer Aileen Johnson, this book will take you on a journey through the world of ChatGPT and show you how to use it to boost your productivity, automate repetitive tasks, generate marketing copy, and much more! Get ready to be amazed by the endless possibilities that ChatGPT has to offer, and learn how you can use it to boost your career today!"

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Blenkinsop Blabbermouth and the Ghost of Broderick McCaffery

Blenkinsop Blabbermouth

and the Ghost of Broderick McCaffery 

John Walker Pattison is pulling readers back into his fictional world of mystery and intrigue with his next children’s fiction instalment ‘Blenkinsop Blabbermouth and the Ghost of Broderick McCaffery!’ A pirate adventure like no other!

Daniel and his best friend Papa, cross a raging river on the back of a crocodile and ride on the back of a giant condor before saving Ernest, the rarest of rare custard elephants.

On their way through the ‘Enchanted Forest,’ Papa tells Daniel about Captain Broderick McCaffery and his evil cut-throat crew – but, the scariest of them all is ‘Crazy Maisie’ an incredibly large and feisty woman, her beady eyes peered out through a wild tangle of matted hair like those of a wolf about to make a kill. The crew claimed that she was at least one hundred and fifty years old; the skull tattooed on her right cheek was proof that she was indeed possessed by evil.

Then, a single bolt of lightning, like a million volts of electricity screaming in anger filled the sky and a voice boomed out from the ‘Cave of Eternal Screams.

But, to protect his treasure, McCaffery had the help of 'Sidero' a sly slithering snake with fiery red eyes filled with torment, a forked tongue that flicked in and out and two bloodthirsty, razor-sharp fangs. Daniel must now fight ‘Sidero!’

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Homeless To Hopkins

 

HOMELESS TO HOPKINS

Childhood should be a time of love, safety, and security.  Childhood shouldn’t be hard. But for Dr. Christopher Smith, what shouldn’t have been was.

Raised with ten other children in what some suggest is one of the happiest states in the nation, Chris’ Utah childhood was extraordinarily chaotic: plagued by poor decisions of dysfunctional parents, void of even the pretense of financial security, constantly on the move when angry landlords served eviction papers, and devastated by the death of a younger brother.  Chris struggled with the deep emotions of this tumultuous life leading him to nearly take his own life at 12 years of age. 

Frequent visits to the library took him to worlds far away from the terrible life he endured. Yet the joy found in fictional worlds of wonder proved fleeting when Chris’ family was kicked out of a rental home in mid-winter with no alternate accommodations to be found. Chris’ life reached its nadir as he was forced to spend his nights in an unheated car, where freezing to death in his sleep seemed a welcome option.

Despite being homeless, Chris earned a scholarship to college and married Teena, his soulmate. Although they soon learned that life still had many serious challenges to throw at them, they prospered together and overcame trial after trial, including being victims of identity theft by Chris’ parents and health issues that nearly ended Teena’s life. They adopted two children and had three more of their own. Chris was accepted to medical school and overcame all odds to become a resident physician at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital, eventually becoming a faculty member as a practicing physician. His knack for medicine, strength of will and tenacity for learning led him to become a successful radiologist.

This is the story of Dr. Christopher Smith, the raw and deeply personal account of his journey—From Homeless to Hopkins.

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A Prayer Journal Just for Women

 

A PRAYER JOURNAL JUST FOR WOMEN:

30 DAYS OF SPIRITUAL RENEWAL WITH GOD!

A prayer journal for women: 30 days of spiritual renewal with God is a tool to aid you in your personal spiritual growth and connection with God through the practice of journaling your prayers and reflections. It also serves as a means to document and track your spiritual journey, as well as provide a space for reflection and self-discovery. Additionally, it can be used as a tool for accountability and encouragement in your prayer life.

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Blackout Trail:

A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller

Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology.

As the blackout causes planes to fall from the sky, Anna crosses paths with devoted father Mark Ryan in the chaos at the airport. Mark convinces Anna to travel with him and his seven-year-old daughter Lily to their family’s cabin in remote Maine. There Mark hopes to reunite with his wife, and find a safe refuge from a society on the brink of collapse.

Journeying across a thousand miles of backcountry trails, they will face a daily struggle against nature. Their biggest peril, though, may come from their fellow survivors. As Anna grows closer to Mark and Lily, she resolves to see them safely home. But can she hold onto her humanity in a world gone mad?

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