This Is How I Save My Life

From “a brave warrior and a wonderful writer” (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author), the true story of a fiery young woman’s heartwarming and hilarious journey that takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation—discovering a piece of her life she never even knew was missing.

When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life—from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago.

After exhausting all of her options in the United States, she discovered a possible cure but it was highly experimental, only available in India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her. Knowing the risks, Amy packed her bags anyway and flew across the world hoping to find the ultimate cure.

This Is How I Save My Life is a “delightful and inspiring” (Sanjiv Chopra, bestselling author and Professor of Medicine at Harvard) story of sheer determination for anyone who believes in—or doubts—the existence of miracles and the infinite power of self-healing when it seems like all hope is lost.

Amy B. Scher is an award-winning and bestselling author of four books about human’ing and healing. She’s been featured in The Washington Post, Daily News (New York), Cosmopolitan, CNN, CBS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and more. Scher was also named one of The Advocate’s “40 Under 40.” Amy’s books have been translated into thirteen languages and endorsed by notable authors such as Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray Love); Vikas Swarup (Slumdog Millionaire); and Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP, Harvard Medical School (Brotherhood with Deepak Chopra). Amy lives in New York City with her beautiful wife and bad cat.