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Tracey Berkowitz

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Born

in Long Island, New York, The United States

Website

http://traceyberkowitz.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Memoir, Self Help, Nonfiction

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January 2015

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For a long time, I lived a lie.
Now, I'm living the truth.

First, a confession: though I was never a dog person, I fell in love with a Golden Retriever named Buddy who changed my life by ‘gifting’ me with giardia. Okay, I’m being sarcastic - I wouldn’t exactly call the five year battle with bloating and extreme fatigue which threatened to put my family into bankruptcy, end my marriage and render me an incapacitated mother of twin daughters a “gift”, but I would say it was the greatest opportunity to change many lifestyle choices that had contributed to my dis-ease.

I grew up in Long Island with loving and supportive parents who provided my sister and me with a nearly idyllic childhood. I was used to life going the way I always thought it shoul ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 9 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Not My Buddy 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not My Buddy: one woman, a dog and their journey towards healing it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.”
― Tracey Berkowitz, Not My Buddy

tags: chronic-illness, giardia, health, keeping-up-with-the-joneses, memoir

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“He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.”
― Tracey Berkowitz, Not My Buddy

tags: chronic-illness, disease, marriage, relationships, troubles

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“It was clear that most of my insecurities originated from my need to have things be “perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more; the fact that I had no control over the changes of my body and hair or that this horrible situation was only happening to me.”
― Tracey Berkowitz, Not My Buddy

tags: fear, illusions, memoir, perfect, perfectionism

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