My Cancer Survival Saga

Author : Jen Kimberley
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504303725
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Cancer Survival Saga written by Jen Kimberley and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jen Kimberley was building a life for herself in Denver, Colorado after the death of her husband from lung cancer when she was accidentally diagnosed with leukemia. In My Cancer Survival Saga, she shares her personal story. Her narrative covers mistakes she made, things she learned the hard way, and people who helped her. It describes her first encounters with alternative cancer treatments such as IPT and hyperthermia; her changes in diet and lifestyle that removed toxins and increased oxygen levels; and the weight loss and weakness known as cachexia and coming out of it alive and strong despite conventional predictions. In sidebars, she offers helpful and educational information for readers who want to know more about treatment options other than chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery; and she teaches how best to work towards a cure rather than just remission. Along with one of Jen's entertaining poems, My Cancer Survival Saga also offers five sections on energy work to start clearing, validating, and protecting your own space. These include specific tools anyone can learn to use that remove stress and increase personal confidence.

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Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648997501
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survivor's Saga written by and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survivor's Saga throws light on the trials and travails of a cancer survivor. It is not about a celebrity fighting cancer or about an exceptional person. It is about an ordinary person, living a very average life, who had never dreamt in her wildest dreams that she would be brought face-to-face one day with this dreaded disease. This book details her journey from diagnosis to cure. It also gives an account of the steps she took to manage a host of physical and emotional issues encountered in the course of her treatment. So, what did she do right to win this fight?

Author : Cheryl Krauter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190636165
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Storm written by Cheryl Krauter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving the Storm presents a humanistic psychological perspective on how to support cancer survivors by offering an individualized narrative structure designed to help them tell their stories. This is a book for people who need to tell the story of how they've been touched by cancer. It doesn't tell what to eat, or how much to exercise, or what to think and feel. Instead, it introduces a contemplative perspective and gives readers a pragmatic structure to help them tell their unique story of surviving or living with cancer. It helps them discover their authentic voice, giving them a way to speak in their own words. Workbook sections are the core of this book and offer a narrative structure created for patients, partners, families, and friends with an emphasis on the different needs and questions of each group. This book focuses on the whole person, their potential, and their natural drive toward authenticity. A contemplative perspective emphasizes shared human needs such as love, belonging, and personal meaning, and expands beyond the learning-based behavioral and psychosocial resources that are currently available to cancer patients and their families. The book provides options that differ from the support group and medical models of treatment, opening up an alternative to the mode of managing or tolerating the issues of cancer into the realm of awareness, exploration, acceptance, and transformation. While it is tempting to find solutions and try to there is much to be gained from learning how to live with uncertainty and from delving more deeply into the emotional residue of cancer. Included are definitions of the different phases of cancer survivorship, material that gives survivors a viewpoint that normalizes the challenges they face, and current research and literature. Personal stories of cancer survivors are highlighted, and poetry and writings related to cancer are interspersed throughout the book to make it more personal.

Author : Mary Andresen Darms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611700169
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loose Stone. a Three-Time Cancer Survival Story. written by Mary Andresen Darms and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the record of one woman's journey through three types of cancer, eight surgeries, endless test procedures and repeated death prognoses, all through which she made the remarkable choice to live. ____ Mary Darms'Loose Stone is not only heroic and truly inspiring, but indispensable with detailed appendices packed with helpful tips and information for cancer patients. Highly recommended. ____ "It has been my privilege to have been involved in the oncologic care of Mary Darms. Hers has not been an easy voyage. She has had the courage and energy to become an informed patient and to play an active role in her care. Readers of this saga will find many experiences to which they can relate and, in addition, advice which will serve them well." -Joseph E. Mason Jr. MD FACP, Head of Oncology. ____ "Mary has so much to share regarding her overcoming and healing of this disease that it is a blessing this book has been written. It reveals that through an unbelievable reserve of quiet faith and determination to get well she conquered overwhelming odds, and is a victor and survivor. This book can be of benefit to those who are well, and those now in the midst of their battles with illness." -Judie Kauffman

Author : Jen Kimberley
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504386914
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems for Your Heart written by Jen Kimberley and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Kimberleys second husband died, these poems started coming to her. Some are sad, some funny, all are thoughtful. Some are more structured, some less so, and they cover a wide variety of topics. They are loved by all who read them.

Author : Anne Boyer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719489
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations

Author : Suleika Jaouad
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399588590
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Kingdoms written by Suleika Jaouad and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist • “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.

Author : Lindy Bruzzone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578506579
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's Daughter written by Lindy Bruzzone and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Father's Daughter tells the story of generations of family members who learn to survive harsh conditions of pioneering America and living with Lynch syndrome hereditary cancers.

Author : Clark B. Hanmer, M.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365491188
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with My Cancer Demon: All the Way to a NIH/NCI Immunotherapy Clinical Trial (B & W) written by Clark B. Hanmer, M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your typical death and dying, search for the meaning of life, cancer story. More like a dance lesson. I'm a family doc who flipped to Stage-4 cancer overnight. Making my way with this terrible problem, I've managed to survive a year, learning a lot in the process. This is my journal, with commentary from friends, written as events unfolded. I offer it for others to find insights and make their dance a little easier. Subjects explored: CANCER: the emotional roller coaster, managing well-wishers, keeping everyone up to date, sorting treatment options and clinical trials. HEALTH CARE: find good doctors, manage your medical record, rebut insurance denials, and find an advocate to assist. DOCTORING: my rural practice stories explore what it takes to become a wise physician, by learning from patients. SURVIVING: Resilience, faith, personal choice, palliative care, and advanced directives. LIVING: Reconnecting and having some fun. Making the best of the time we have left.

Author : Rick Murdock
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patient Number One written by Rick Murdock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Great Dames, Marie Benner introduces us to a pantheon of women whose lives are both gloriously individual and yet somehow universal. Her subjects range from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who found happiness in her last decade, to Constance Baker Motley, who argued Brown versus the Board of Education before the United States Supreme Court, to Luise Rainer, who won two Academy Awards by age thirty, then fled Hollywood for good. We meet Kitty Carlisle Hart, a professional charmer and tireless advocate of the arts, and Diana Trilling, the intellectual's intellectual, who published her final, splendid memoir at age ninety-one. There are even the Becky Sharps, who maneuvered powerful men to help them ascend: Marietta Tree, Pamela Harriman, and Clare Boothe Luce. And the wonderfully flamboyant Kay Thompson, whose pint-sized creation, Eloise, gave her a place in American cultural history. Finally, there is Thelma Brenner, who was the first great dame her daughter ever knew." "These are women who helped shape a century. Marie Brenner's portraits are intimate, vivid, and true, and full of subtle but important lessons. The way the great dames lived their lives - their rules, their codes, their insistence on certain fundamentals - are models that today's women should consider as they ascend to positions of leadership in a new millennium."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved