That’s the best advice I can give you – and ask God for help because you can’t do it on your own. It’s something you’ve got to go through and keep moving forward. Cancer shouldn’t be your brand, it shouldn’t be the defining characteristic of your life. This is not, you know, it’s not your brand. STACEY GUALANDI: When you speak to people maybe who have just been diagnosed or… what’s the best advice that you give them? But really a lot of the ideas came from my listeners and friends and people really just changed my life for the better. LAURA INGRAHAM: The message is getting out and it’s – it is gratifying and it’s very humbling because it’s not about me, it’s about everything that I saw and learned. I don’t call them survivors, I call them thrivers.ĪNNOUNCER: Now Laura sees a purpose to her illness and a lesson for her life and she’ll continue to empower each and every one of her readers and listeners. But I put one foot in front of the other because I saw the examples of so many other cancer thrivers. ![]() I mean, and it’s easy to say it and sometimes not easy to do it because believe me there were days and nights where, you know I cried and, you know, really was, you know, quite down. I think not letting a diagnosis devastate you. In her latest, radio personality and author Ingraham (Shut up and. On her bus tour, thousands of people have said Laura’s book and outspoken discussion about her disease inspired them.įAN 1: It helps us experience in a way what she’s going through.įAN 2: You know, she fought the battle and she’s won it so far and I think that’s great because not everybody can do that.įAN 3: She will not be intimidated. Laura Ingraham, Author Regnery 27.95 (372p) ISBN 978-1-59698-516-2. And so I don’t know, I’m going to try to make, you know, the most of whatever I have left, however long that is.ĪNNOUNCER: So far so good doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story. Even you know, two years out when I’m still alive and you know my last check-up was fine, but I still get caught up in the rat race, you know I still get, you know, impatient or short-tempered or… and I literally have to slap myself sometimes – like, “Are you kidding me? Do you know how lucky and blessed you are to even be alive at this point?” We’re all on borrowed time here, all of us. LAURA INGRAHAM: It’s true and sometimes I forget that, even now. STACEY GUALANDI: You know, there’s a line in your book where you say, “I have nothing to complain about and everything to be grateful for.” She writes that her mother’s death taught her about faith. It’s really strange.ĪNNOUNCER: Laura’s diagnosis came just six years after she lost her mother to lung cancer. It was an awful time, but it was a glorious time at the same time. And I decided that it was time to look at my own life and my own choices and path and decide if I could do better. ![]() ![]() Well, it turns out that, you know, when you get that tap on the shoulder, you either pay attention or you just, you know, keep going on. We want to think we’re going to live forever and we can go about our merry ways and lalala. I know we all, in our own minds, realize we’re going to die someday and we don’t really want to think about it though. LAURA INGRAHAM: Because it brought me to a place of clarity in my own life. STACEY GUALANDI: Why do you consider your bout with cancer an adventure? But, she says, after her diagnosis amazing things began happening to her. She underwent chemotherapy, lost her hair and admits there were many dark moments and difficult days. Ingraham's commentary on the lack of education in our schools and the ""pornification"" of the culture contain her most sound, articulate arguments (bolstered by a wealth of statistics), but Ingraham's assembling tactics are overzealous still, fans of her strident radio show should be pleased to find more of the same here.ANNOUNCER: Laura’s cancer was caught early. Chapters cover most of today's hot button topics-the war in Iraq, homeland security, the judiciary, the news media and global warming-with attitude and conviction. In her latest, radio personality and author Ingraham (Shut up and Sing) calls on the American people to take back the phrase ""Power to the People"" from the anti-establishment groups of yesterday that, today, have made the country, according to Ingraham, ""a slave to fringe groups, political correctness, expanding bureaucracies, and our own consumerism."" Taking an approach that makes mutually exclusive groups out of those ""working and taking care of their families"" and the ""protest culture,"" Ingraham's message is loud and clear: ""they're coming for you."" Specifically, ""they"" means the Lifetime network (brainwashing women to ""swear off men and family""), the growing ranks of ""Team Atheist"" (including Dan Brown), ""family deconstructivists,"" illegal immigrants and Islamic jihadists, among others.
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