An Illness Observed Through Reluctant Eyes offers encouragement, ideas and anecdotes interwoven with humor for individuals going through or facing a serious illness as a patient or caregiver. Lisa T. Pence transports readers from the diagnosis, through the illness, to recovery with their loved one. This guide is filled with advice, humor, and suggestions to keep both caregiver and patient engaged, healthy, and hopeful for the future. Lisa’s story makes readers laugh, brings them to tears, proposes helpful suggestions, encourages, and most of all, lets readers know they are not alone during this trying ordeal. Someone has come before them and emerged from the other side of illness alive, eternally thankful, and whole.