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How Can You NOT Laugh at a Time Like This?:
Facing Illness with Humor, Creativity, and Grit
by Carla Ulbrich, the Singing Patient

Summer 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9816453-4-6
$18.95 US ($24.95 Canada)

224 pages
softcover
illustrations & photos

 

Grammy ballot selected - Carla Ulbrich
The Singing Patient—a k a nationally renowned singer-songwriter and professional smart aleck Carla Ulbrich—opens up about something not often discussed by performers: chronic and life-threatening illness. Ulbrich entered the American health care system in a Big Way in her twenties when she experienced a stroke. Amazingly enough, she has no residual effects from the stroke, but several other significant health challenges have come her way. She has since become an unwitting expert in navigating and interpreting the mainstream medical establishment as well as the world of alternative therapies.

In How Can You NOT Laugh at a Time Like This? the Singing Patient gives heartfelt and humorous advice to people coping with health problems, and she cheers on partners, families, and friends who strive to help their loved ones get better. Ulbrich’s candid insights, hi-larious commentary, handy lists, excerpts of deft song lyrics, and gentle camaraderie will put a smile on the face of anyone who wants to face illness with courage and a touch of wacky and—dare we say—sick humor.

Learn—and laugh—with Carla Ulbrich as she lampoons common fears and prejudices about illness and lovingly lambastes the foibles of the medical industry. Before long, you too will be humming “On the Commode Again” (lyrics included!) as you read about:

The Top 10 Annoying Things to Say to Someone Who’s Just Been Diagnosed • You Can Biopsy Me When I’m Dead: My 15 Least Favorite Medical Procedures • “My Disease Is Worse Than Your Disease” • Lessons from the Nudist Festival: How Much to Reveal • Survivor: Kidney Island • Doctors Are People Too • Fibromyalgia: The Other F Word • A Good Vein Is Hard to Find • My Other Body Is a Porsche

To learn more about Carla visit www.carlau.com

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Curiosity with a
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