By Veronica LaRoque
What do medicine, meditation and Madonna all have in common?  For author Wendy Shanker, they were all supposed to be cures for a rare autoimmune disease that struck her right when she was at the top of her game.  Shanker, who had given advice to thousands of women in her hugely successful first book The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life, was now searching for someone to help her with the difficulties of dealing with a chronic illness.
In her new book, Are You My Guru? How Medicine, Meditation and Madonna Saved My Life, Shanker tells the story of her disease.  With humor and hope, she chronicles her search to find one person who has all the answers not knowing if that person even exists.
What can you do when life takes a turn for the worse?
