When 44-year-old Ann Pietrangelo is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, all previous assumptions about health, work, and her budding romance are up for grabs. How do you plan for life's second half with a body you've never met before? One precarious step at a time. From the impersonal diagnosis by email to a wedding presided over by a funeral director, this is no tragic tale of woe. Like relapsing/remitting MS itself, the book alternates between the serious ("When I turn toward him, there's a big hole where his right cheek should be.") and the silly ("The bocce balls don't get out much.")....

Sometimes, when that "other shoe" finally drops, it drops hard. Ann couldn't believe her luck. After years of living with the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis, she was making the most of her miraculous remission; although a part of her was always on the alert, waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. It wasn't long before an accidental discovery of a lump led to her life-threatening diagnosis - triple-negative breast cancer. From a deeply personal perspective and told in riveting detail, "Catch That Look" explores the relationships between doctors and their patients, as well...