David L Meth

Every Day Is a Gift David L Meth

"Every Day is a Gift" are the words my father lived by after he died the first time. Yes, the first time. But there is so much more to this short phrase, as you will understand from the full title of this multi-layered personal story. Join me on a journey from being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012 at the age of 65, 30 years after my father died (the second time) when prostate cancer finally took him, to assessing the future, and determining how I made it through events as a teenager that would normally weaken the heart and crush the spirit. Unlike my father, I am cancer free, physically fit and in excellent health. From the intense uncertainty of just hearing the word "cancer," to attempting to understand how to deal with the disease, the reader joins me in confronting the past and embracing life outside our bodies from multiple points of view. Together, we examine the love and support necessary to survive that form our strongest bonds. We face the emotional confrontations we can't avoid or make sense of, and we look deep into spiritual connections that reside within us, but often remain unacknowledged. At times intensely dramatic and satirically funny, the book is matter of fact, yet passionate, providing time to pause for reflection. From first page to last, there is no separation between writer and reader as we arrive at the conclusion that governed my father's days: Every day is a gift.