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Title	:	Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward
Author	:	Lisa Niemi Swayze
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	January 3rd 2012 by Atria Books (first published December 31st 2011)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir

Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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Wait a minute . . .

. . . there.

I made it to the next moment.

And that’s how you get through a bad moment of grief. You do it one moment at a time.

—from Worth Fighting For

LISA NIEMI and PATRICK SWAYZE were married for thirty-four years. They first met as teenagers at his mother’s dance studio—he was older and just a bit cocky; she was the beautiful waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on. Through the years their marriage strained under the pressures that many do, but it was always a uniquely passionate and creative partnership.

When they first exchanged vows, Lisa promised to be with her husband “till death do us part.” But how many couples stop and think about what that truly means? Worth Fighting For is a remarkably candid look at what losing a partner really entails—how to care for him or her, how to make it through each day without falling into despair, and how to move forward in the second half of your life when the person you spent the first half with is gone.

For the first time, Lisa Niemi Swayze shares the details of Patrick’s twenty-one-month battle with Stage IV pancreatic cancer, and she describes his last days, when she simply tried to keep him comfortable. She writes with heartbreaking honesty about her grief in the aftermath of Patrick’s death, and she openly discusses the challenges that the years without him have posed.

While this is an emotionally honest and un-flinching depiction of illness and loss, it is also a hopeful and life-affirming exploration of the power of the human spirit. Lisa shows that no matter how dark the prospect of another day may seem, there are always reserves of strength to call upon. She writes, “I tell you, I am a different person now. One who has been thrown into the fire and forged.” Like The Year of Magical Thinking and A Widow’s Story, this book is both a tribute to a marriage and a celebration of the healing power that each day holds, even in the most difficult of circumstances.

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ISBN:	1439196354 (ISBN13: 9781439196359)
Edition Language:	English

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See this review on 1776books.net...http://1776books.blogspot.com/2012/01...Patrick Swayze. For my generation, he was Johnny Castle who was angry that Baby was in the corner. He was the oldest brother in The Outsiders, which started the career of so many actors of our time. He competed with Chris Farley in the Chippendale dance off on Saturday Night Live. He was larger than life, a darn good actor, and from what we could see, an all-around great guy.Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze were married for

A heart-wrenching story of loss albeit a very medical 'rundown' of the various stages of Patrick's battle with pancreatic cancer. Never, ever, self-pitying, it recounts Lisa's constant vigilance and strength throughout what must have been a horrendous ordeal for her to live through, never wavering in her love for her husband, to the point of most days forgetting about her own needs. Selfless love! Only through the parts that are published in italics does Lisa ever reveal her real feelings and

I decided to read this book because I just lost my cousin to stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month ago. for some reason I was under the impression, Lisa would talk more about grief and how to cope and handle it. I don't know why I had decided before hand that she was a pro on the subject. I think if nothing else I didn't want to feel alone and maybe reading about hers, I wouldn't. I defiantly do not. the truth is grief is terrible. there is no way out and very few things help. I was captivated by

I picked this up because I loved Joan Didion's book on widowhood, The Year of Magical Thinking and because I was a 12-year-old girl who fell in love with Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing and then fell in love with his very real seeming marriage after reading Time of My Life the book he cowrote with his wife. Now, a few years after her husband's death, I wanted to make sure that Lisa Niemi was okay.However, this book was primarily Lisa's story of Patrick's battle with cancer and all the living she

I found this book to be an amazing account of Lisa & Patrick's journey through this horrible, unforgiving disease. Having lost 2 close family members to this disease, this book helped me understand what they must have been going through with this disease, all of the treatments and medications, that in the end only made them comfortable. Thank you Lisa for letting us into this very private time of yours and Patrick's life that made me have a giggle at some of the little stories, made me

I was a fan of Patrick Swayze and was interested to hear what his wife had to say.There wasn't much new information in this book vs. what they wrote in his biography. This was her version of events from the time he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer until he died, and a little bit after. It was not that well written with a lot of rambling and saying the same thing over and over. Up until he became very ill I was somewhat annoyed with repeatedly reading about how strong and determined he was,

This is a must read for anyone who is/was a Patrick Swayze fan. This is a love story written by the one who loved him the most, the one who understood him, stood by him and was with him until he drew his last breath. This story is personal and it's very real. You will laugh and you will cry and you will feel Lisa's pain and heart-wrenching anguish as she watches her beloved grow weaker and eventually slip away from her. It is as if you are in the very room watching it all unfold. I don't think I