Battling The Three Big Bad Cs

Covid. Coup. Cancer.Eileen never imagined those three words would redefine her life.Within a few short years, a global pandemic, Myanmar's military coup and cancer dismantled everything she believed she could rely on: certainty, purpose, strength and ultimately, the love of her life.Some people think grief begins with death. Sometimes it begins long before, through a thousand moments of fear, helplessness and heartbreak that still doesn't quite prepare us for the loss we hope will never come.When that loss finally arrived, everything Eileen had relied on to survive, including her discipline, resilience and "Olympic-gold-medal mindset", was no longer enough.She wrote this memoir from the depths of that darkness, not because she had found the answers, but because she hoped others might feel less alone in their own murkiness.This is an honest account of love, loss and struggling through the unimaginable. Because when grief overtakes us, each of us is carried by it differently.