Book Review: Last Nerve

Last Nerve by Mindy Uhrlaub
This memoir begins with the author's recollection of her ailing mother who is affected by ALS, and the prospect of she herself joining her mother. Enters her husband Kirk, chemotherapy, and quite a few hospital visits, alongwith the welcome pangs and revelries of their growing-up sons. Which is frequently cut-short by a fear - has she passed on the deadly genes to sons Ethan and Alex? Now she feels - my own affair with ALS can wait. 
The book chronicles many battles. Kirk's with cancer, Ethan's with his wilderness therapy and ADHD, of Alex with constant needs of re-assurance, and the author's one of balancing family needs and her therapy, not to speak of other emergencies like fights between brothers. There are also visits from an unending stream of specialists. And also of the author writing and publishing a book.
I found it difficult to put this book down. What came out is a determined fighter on a path to victory against a formidable enemy, who ended the narration with tears of hope.