Dr. Michael Fisher was stirred to write his enlightening and empathetic book Surviving Kidney Disease: True Stories of Love and Compassion after he was diagnosed in 2013 with something completely different: lung cancer.
“It’s given me a new life,” he says. “I was living a full life, enjoying my grandkids.” But the diagnosis threw him into a state of shock. “What do I do to survive?” he asked himself. “I wasn’t a doctor anymore, but a patient.” After having his lung removed, he’d lie in bed and think about all of his former patients and how they endured heroic battles to survive.
Compiling those stories into this book was therapeutic for Michael, but he hopes that they inspire anyone who’s facing medical challenges to overcome adversity. “I wanted it to be a book that was informative and inspirational,” he explains.