Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT

Author: Stern, JaneBrand: Broadway BooksColor: SilverFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 240Release Date: 27-04-2004Part Number: 9781400048694Details: The basis for the movie starring Kathy Bates, Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned to help myself.” Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. Yet, this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician. Stern tells her story with great humor