{"product_id":"the-widow-maker-frank-shumard-9798196849732","title":"The Widow Maker: A Heart Attack Survivor's Memoir of Stents, Pacemakers, Cardiac Rehab, and Learning to Live Again","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Widowmaker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Heart Attack Survivor's Memoir of Stents, Pacemakers, Cardiac Rehab, and Learning to Live Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne minute, Frank Shumard was sitting in his cardiologist's office. The next, he was dying from the most feared heart attack in modern medicine: the Widowmaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was not just a medical emergency, but the beginning of a long, often difficult, and surprisingly humorous journey through survival, recovery, fear, frustration, and eventually, gratitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Widowmaker\u003c\/i\u003e, Shumard tells the true story of living through catastrophic cardiac events, emergency procedures, stents, pacemakers, cardiac rehab, sleepless nights, terrifying test results, and the strange reality of becoming a \"professional patient\" while still trying to remain a husband, father, traveler, writer, and stubbornly independent human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with warmth, honesty, and the sharp observational humor that has made Frank Shumard popular with readers around the world, this memoir does not read like a dry medical book. It reads like sitting across the table from someone who has truly been there - someone who understands the fear that arrives at 3 AM in a hospital room, the absurdity of hospital food, the exhaustion of recovery, and the emotional roller coaster faced by both patients and the people who love them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not simply a story about illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story about survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout learning that life after serious heart disease is still life. About finding humor inside fear. About discovering that healing involves far more than scars, medications, and cardiac monitors. And about realizing that sometimes the most important victories happen long after the emergency is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor heart patients, caregivers, families, and anyone facing a frightening medical diagnosis, \u003ci\u003eThe Widowmaker\u003c\/i\u003e offers honesty, encouragement, laughter, and the reassurance that even after the darkest moments, life can still be meaningful, funny, frustrating, beautiful, and very much worth living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Shumard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196849732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Frank Shumard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659915538687,"sku":"9798196849732","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-widow-maker-frank-shumard-9798196849732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}