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Carole-Ann Baer remembers vividly the day her husband, Lee, received the devastating news he hadterminal cancer and was given three to five months to live. She wondered how life could go from normalto this? How could their happy, predictable world suddenly be changing most horribly? How would shetell the kids? The family didn’t invite cancer in, and now they had a permanent intruder.In Breathing Sorrow, she shares the story of her family’s journey through an illness that swallowedtheir lives and took away a beloved father, husband, son, brother, colleague, and friend. It’s a story ofemotional chaos and shattered dreams, the story of being broken, being changed, but somehow findinghow to live with the most devastating sorrow imaginable. It’s a story about pain, loss, and profoundgrief, yet somewhere embedded in all of these things, it’s a story about hope.Through Baer’s personal reflections, Breathing Sorrow captures the emotionalturmoil any terminal illness puts upon a family. It narrates the roadof despair but also the possibility of healing through heartfelt bitsof wisdom. It illustrates the possibility of hope and light.