Alan and Cathy Crimmins had a nifty life. Effective professionals--Cathy wrote books like 7 habits of highly defective people:
From the authors of the bestselling Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Stories for Orphans comes this parody on all the popular books you'd ever want to read. This hilarious spoof of the blockbuster hits of the last few years lampoons all the books you love and many books you've come to hate. In "The Fridges of Marin County," for instance, a hip California housewife finds brief happiness in the arms of an Iowa refrigerator.
And then, on a very bad vacaction, Al's brain is run over by speed boat. It's told from Cathy's point of view, so it is about facing fear, battling with insurers,
I used to imagine murdering the wealthy HMO executives who make their money from denying benefits to people who have worked hard their whole lives; now I fantasize about roasting the executives slowly on a spit, then taking them down and throwing a few Band-Aids and a jar of Vaseline at them: "Here's the treatment -- this is what we've authorized for first-degree burns under your plan!"
facing fear, humor, facing fear, and the real goods. Go and buy it.
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