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There is no manual for how to handle a cancer diagnosis or for the journey through treatments. Neither for the grief many families experience when the outcome results in the loss of a loved one. Loss is a profound, life-changing event that has no end. I will not pretend to have any tidy answers for you on how to overcome grief or to provide a process for you to follow in your own grief journey. I simply do not have one, even for myself. This book is about my joy journey with the love of my life, Amy. You probably are curious about the use of the word joy in describing this journey. Certainly, cancer is not a joyful event, but the word joy had special meaning and significance to Amy and, because of her example, to many others. After receiving her cancer diagnosis, Amy expressed very adamantly that she wanted to somehow find joy in our cancer journey as well. As you read this collection of reflections, I think you will come to understand the joy Amy sought. Throughout this book, I recall the many wonderful, joyful memories of my life with Amy as well as chronicle my own challenges and struggles through grief to healing. While writing My Joy Journey with Amy was in many ways cathartic for me, my hope is that this book will inspire you to follow Amy's example and find some way to seek joy each and every day. ""Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."" -Henri J.M. Nouwen

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""I read this book in one day! It is not a ""how to"" book on grief. It simply chronicles one family's journey through life, cancer, loss, and grief. It is filled with the joy they shared and their enduring love for each other. I was laughing one minute and fighting off tears the next. Everyone who has experienced loss will relate to the feelings and experiences of this family's joy journey. Amy must have been a special person to have been so loved. This book is a challenge to all of us to find and spread joy every single day!"" -Mark Rutkowski, Cancer Survivor ""How to spin the straw of immutable grief and loss into the gold of documenting a joyous life together? This author found solace writing a series of short essays sharing the quotidian moments that define a true loving partnership - the daily joys, struggles and inside jokes that all parents will recognize - alongside the dark days and indignities that accompany a cancer diagnosis, always keeping his Amy's imperative to ""find Joy, dammit!"" front and center as a guidepost through the dark times. A beautiful, sweet, funny/sad tribute to a shared life together and one man's journey through heartbreak."" -Jackie Gessner

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