{"id":11,"date":"2012-01-16T02:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debbiepetrina.authorsxpress.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-01-01T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T15:51:53","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-583 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BookBrushImage-2021-10-26-10-325-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 9.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Debbie Petrina\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif;\">understands<\/span><\/em>\u00a0MS: she has spent 41 years living with it and over 30 years educating, counseling, interacting and volunteering through numerous channels to help anyone deal with it. Since publishing\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif;\">Managing MS\u2014Straight Talk from a Thirty-One Year Survivor<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in 2011, she was inspired to write this enhanced 2nd edition as her MS journey continued, explaining how to proceed in the complicated and ever-changing world of MS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 9.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Newly-diagnosed or older with MS? Trying to figure out the basics, what treatments to take, symptoms, interrelationships? Or, how to handle difficult subjects like bladder\/bowel problems, mental health, stigmas and employment? In a \u201cwhat to know, what to do\u201d user-friendly format, readers are guided easily through current MS information and resources available today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 9.0pt 0in;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Managing MS<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Lato',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0offers patients and their loved ones hands-on knowledge and support to make life easier and less fearful. Others assisting MS patients will understand MS from a survivor\u2019s viewpoint and learn how they can help them move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debbiems.com\">www.debbiems.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Petrina\u00a0understands\u00a0MS: she has spent 41 years living with it and over 30 years educating, counseling, interacting and volunteering through numerous channels to help anyone deal with it. Since publishing\u00a0Managing MS\u2014Straight Talk from a Thirty-One Year Survivor\u00a0in 2011, she was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?page_id=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}