Download or read book Fighting My Way Through Breast Cancer With Poetry written by Diana Ballinger and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Diana Ballinger was diagnosed with breast cancer, she had no idea what lay ahead. The surgery, crippling side-effects of chemo and radiation, and the emotions that threatened to boil over pushed her to write for her life. This mother and wife feared she couldn't fight cancer and fulfill her family and work responsibilities. She dealt with the disfigurement, loss of employment and the travails of insurance by writing poetry. Ballinger knew she was more than her breast cancer. She wanted her daughter to have a normal life while she underwent treatment and she was determined to make that happen. What she didn't expect, is how much her daughter would help her. "Fighting My Way Through Breast Cancer With Poetry" takes the reader step by step through her journey. It is her first book. Ballinger lives in California with her husband, Dick and her 16 yr. old daughter, Ashley, and celebrated her 1 yr. anniversary as a survivor in Feb. 2009.
Download or read book Now I Lay Me Down to Fight written by Katy Bowser Hutson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer, did you know that I am a poet? In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through her resistance to sickness, fight for survival, and wrestling toward beauty.
Download or read book Writing My Way Through Cancer written by Myra Schneider and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2000, poet and author Myra Schneider turned to her writing to help her come to terms with the experience. In this thoughtful and readable book, she illustrates how writing helped her through diagnosis, treatment and recovery as well as the change in self-image following her mastectomy.
Download or read book Wrapped N Pink written by Anita Jeter-Peterkin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrapped-N-Pink Book summary Wrapped-N-Pink is a story about a woman's journey of fighting breast cancer through fear, faith, trust, courage, belief and realizing the purpose of her encounter with a disease that does not discriminate and brings forth much debate. The Author Anita Jeter-Peterkin wife, mother of five and nana of 8, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the very young age of twenty three with a poor prognosis and diagnosed again at the age of forty six by early detection. Although, at the beginning of her journey things seemed uncertain and doubtful, Anita leaned to God and found the faith and trust she needed to live her life to the fullest. Anita decided to write about her story in a unique and inspiring way. She wanted it to be simplistic and done through rhyme and reason. Deciding to write about her life in such a form would appear to be a big challenge. Rhyming a story from beginning to end would seem to be more than she could handle. But she felt a passion to attempt the mission. After years of trying to connect pen to paper with poetry of her experience with breast cancer, she called her Aunt Lois (Pastor of St John's Church in CT) and explained to her that there was a burning sensation in her heart to write her story in that form. But at the time so many changes were going on in her life and she could not focus on her writings. She felt that if she could have just one night of solitude that her passion would begin to blossom. Her Aunt helped her find a secluded place for one night that would ignite the materials for her book "Wrapped-N-Pink". After, her aunt and cousin prayed with her, they left her there to begin her journey to writing a book that tells the story of her experiences of being a breast cancer survivor. The story begins with her diagnosis at a young age through the many health decisions she had to make along the way. She opened her life to share with others some of her emotions whether they were good, bad, happy or sad. She hopes that her writings will be a blessing to others as she continues to give her testimony of God and the miracles that He has performed in her life.
Download or read book Consider Yourself Hugged Fighting Breast Cancer with Heart and Humor written by Scott Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider Yourself Hugged is a collections of illustrations and verse created to bring smiles and hope with humor and heart.
Download or read book Her Soul Beneath the Bone written by Leatrice H. Lifshitz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with mammograms, diagnosis, surgery, complications, recovery, and psychological implications of breast cancer.
Download or read book Everybody Reads A Poem written by Mary L. Henry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In EVERYBODY READS A POEM, Mary Leah Cornish-Henry gracefully chronicles her astonishing story of her fight against cancer facing the many gruesome effects of chemotherapy, and staying caner free two months after surgery, and remaining so 5 years later. Leah’s fight started when she discovered a lump under her arm, and on May 23, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although Leah practiced a fairly healthy lifestyle of diet and exercise, the diagnosis showed a stage three breast cancer. Within the few weeks following the diagnosis, Leah started facing a debilitating fear – Fear of dying! Along Leah’s pathway to healing, she was a patient at a Natural lifestyle center in Euchee Pines Lifestyle center in Alabama. Her health improved at the end of the treatment period, but the cancer was still active in her body. In August of 2007, she had surgery, and then moved on the Immune Recovery Foundation to continue her treatment in conventional and naturopathic medicine. Although Leah’s treatment included only 10% chemotherapy, and 90 natural treatments, she was plagued with immeasurable amount of side effects. The one side effect that taunted her the most was the ugly stain of depression. In the midst of these treatments, Leah remained faithful to her God, and accepted the help of many good friends. Though she could barely shun the depression that led her to antidepressant and a week in the hospital’s psychiatric ward, she did do one thing – WRITE! So for the next 5 years, Mary Leah Cornish-Henry has written over one hundred poems which bring her joy and healing from the terrible disease of cancer. In May of 2012, Ms Henry resigned her job as a public school teacher to devote 100% of her time towards her health. Leah has overcome numerous suicide ideations, and has chosen life instead of death. She has taken the time to share her cancer healing poems with you, in an attempt that you may find – Joy and healing from your pain and loss!
Download or read book Dancing with Breast Cancer written by Janay Cosner and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One out of eight women are diagnosed with breast cancer. What many breast cancer patients don't open up about, read about, or discuss are the fearful moments, the angry moments, and the sometimes funny moments that women experience, beginning with that first scary doctor's appointment. Freezing-cold mammograms that flatten breasts like two fried eggs. Crushing loneliness. Nightmares about confronting mortality. But in Dancing with Breast Cancer, Janay Cosner gets real about her journey with the disease. Through a series of poems, Cosner opens up and shares her experience. Each poem is a snapshot of her odyssey. What does it mean to be a survivor, these poems ask. What does it mean to be a warrior? From diagnosis and surgery to chemotherapy and radiation to what is now her new normal, Cosner asks all her readers-patients, family members, friends, doctors, nurses-to join her in a raw and very real dance with cancer. My head high, I shout, I'm alive. My shoes start to dance again to the rhythm of life. Come dance with me. Praise for Dancing with Breast Cancer Every woman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer will relate to the emotions, the drudgery, and the multiple steps they take while "dancing" with cancer. As a medical oncologist, I have treated many women with breast cancer. However, I never knew how they really felt till I read Janay's poems. They speak to me of the patients' pain, loss, fear, and daily struggles as well the hope of a future when they will be able to dance again with their partners and not with cancer. Ms. Cosner bares her soul so that we (the healthcare providers) can be better prepared to care for the "person" and not just the "cancer." --Khalid Rehman, MD, FACP, medical oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at The New York Medical College What's most impressive about Janay Cosner's Dancing with Breast Cancer is her gutsy willingness to relive her ordeal from the first suspicious mammogram, through the traumas of treatment, to a wary recovery. Cosner has chosen poetry as the medium for her memoir, a choice that allows her to move swiftly yet with detail through the shifting phases of her illness, and all the accompanying emotions from horror and terror to humor and hope. Cosner is no sit-back survivor. She's a savvy, sexy lady doing a defiant dance--a dance many women will recognize--a dance that will be eye-opening for everyone else. --Joan Murray, author of Swimming for the Ark Can there be beauty in pain? Only if it is poetry, and only when the poet touches your aching heart. Janay, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer, yearns to be treated like a person. She exposes her fears, frustration, and fighting spirit as she dances with fate. With a poem for each stage of her journey, she dances to a new tune, culminating in a symphony of shock, agony, anger, resolve, and regrets. Her poems are a window into a woman's heart, her suffering, and her remarkable poise under duress. This book is for women with breast cancer, for Janay knows just how they feel; it is for all women, with or without cancer, for she reveals what it is like to suffer; and it is a book for caregivers, for it shows the pathway to treating a patient as a person and not just a case study. This is a book of hope. --Sabeeha Rehman, author of Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
Download or read book The Cancer Poems written by Stuart Wilson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point in our lives cancer will touch us or someone close to us. This book follows one woman's fight against breast cancer and the treatment she underwent. These poems were written by her husband during this difficult time as a mark of love and respect for her. The author's profits from this book are being donated to cancer charities.
Download or read book Pink on pink written by Teresa Schreiber Werth and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of poems, correspondence, and essays.
Download or read book Inspirational Quotes and Sayings written by Nida Bejosano Goudeaux and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings -A Voice Emanating from a Cancer Survivor delivers an immense messages of profound thoughts or contemplation about life and transformations. Having been in a cancer journey was not an easy continuing adventure because of many uncertainties or unknowns that might happen, and yet, the strong will to live and accomplish more is very intense and desiring .... Positive attitude captures her entire system for the most part. What is even more admiring is that she transitioned into many insightful views or thinking about life pursuits and never defeats herself to be subjected into quits or failures to destruct her goals. Every emotion felt during the ordeal even prior to being diagnosed of a death-defying disease did not discourage her to not live productively. Her emotions were translated into a project of a book completion because writing in poetry-designed is her passion and relief against disappointments or stressful situations. She is able to express her thoughts in this silent provocation and delivers cheerful approach to life in this mode of a simple literary spectacle. Discover the many life-changing thoughts and the strong stigma of her pronouncements transformed into many gratifications and/or stimulation to healthy living and all. Wise words and Quotes and sayings are adhered to.... with wisdom instilled. Some religious verses are in the pages of the book and spiritual statements coming from a voice of a cancer survivor is evident as well. Many great things have been said.... life is beautiful in the long run.
Download or read book Smiling Thru the Tears written by Pamela Deleon-Lewis and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for her down-home style and sense of humor, Pamela deLeon-Lewis delivers an ultimatum to cancer. In pristine poetic form, Ms. deLeon-Lewis, standing firmly on faith, wages an all-out battle with breast cancer. "This battle you may've started, but I intend to win the war," echoes throughout this inspirational, motivational, and awe- inspiring book; Smiling Thru the Tears makes a great gift for anyone and everyone who has had to fight to survive.
Download or read book Emotions Gathered Along My Journey with Breast Cancer written by Patricia Sithole and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Journey with Breast Cancer, Patricia Mercy Sithole, a Zimbabwean woman, chronicles her journey with breast cancer through the prism of her troubled country, her deep spiritual callings, and her love of family and life. Professor Etta Kralovec, Bisbee, Arizona, USA
Download or read book The Nature of Poetry written by Catherine Connelly and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey of life with Breast Cancer unfolds with fear, courage, strength, hope, pain, and sometimes despair. Our daily battles are surmountable with the comfort of nature that brings us fleeting moments of peace. These poems and illustrations reflect the inner struggle and strength within each of us as individuals and mirror the celebration and determination of life in forests, seashores, and mountain streams. Vernal Ritual celebrates this tenacity of life: Vernal Ritual Unfurling skunk cabbage maroon spikes breaking skyward through crusted March snow. The illustrator, Sue Kempinski Hennessey, is a six year survivor of Stage 3 Breast Cancer. The Nature of Poetry is written to celebrate our mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends who are survivors or are battling breast cancer and to our loved ones whom we hold in our hearts every day we live. A portion of the proceeds from each book will be donated to Breast Cancer research. Your purchase brings us one step closer to The Cure. Books available at www.xlibris.com/bookstore online bookstore.
Download or read book The Frozen Kingdom written by Gail Gunnarson Schimmelpfennig and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting Cancer One Patient at a Time written by Susan J. Mellette and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of poetry from Dr. Susan J. Mellette, female physician and pioneering oncologist. Biographical information included.
Download or read book Writing My Way Through Cancer written by Myra Schneider and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly readable book about a personal way of dealing with potentially life-threatening illness, we follow author, broadcaster and acclaimed poet Myra Schneider through her journey from diagnosis to recovery from breast cancer. One of the book's special gifts is to make us feel we are engaged in an absorbing conversation with a friend, a friend who is full of courage, sensitivity and hope, but manages at the same time to be completely honest about the terror, anger and times of darkness that such a diagnosis brings.' - Caduceus 'Although, as its title suggests, this book concentrates on writing for cancer sufferers, its advice is equally valid for people suffering from other problems, whether physical, emotional or practical. It shows the empowering effect of writing; how it can help to make sense when the world chaotic; how it can keep you focused when your life is falling apart. This is an inspiring read, made so by the author's frankness, warmth and honesty, which breathe through the pages.' - Writing Magazine 'Reading someone else's journal is so engaging; When that person is a poet and has experienced a life threatening illness, the reading becomes inspiring. Myra Schneider is not only a poet and author but also a teacher. Her guide lines for therapeutic writing are clear and had me reaching for a pen. It would be a very valuable book for most clients who have been, or are going through, illness or any difficult experience, to try the visualisations and writing ideas. These, and the whole book, would be extremely useful for therapists working in any setting. Buy it!' - HCPJ 'Myra, an established poet and author of a handbook on writing for personal development, clearly found her writing enormously supportive throughout the cancer experience. She clearly and simply offers exercises and routes to self-expression and exploration.' - The British Journal of General Practice 'In this moving account [Myra Schneider] tackles with endearing honesty her personal experience of breast cancer. Myra takes us from diagnosis through the long painful route to recovery by developing the journal she decided to keep through her experiences. By sharing her journal with us, Myra has provided a window onto an experience which many people, finding themselves in a similar situation, will take comfort and inspiration from.' - Lapidus Magazine 'While this book provides an intimate portrayal of the author's experience of breast cancer, the writing is often humorous and ultimately uplifting. It will be of interest to people with breast cancer and to those supporting them, and to health professionals for the psychological insights offered.' - Breast Cancer Care News Diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2000, poet and author Myra Schneider turned to her writing to help her come to terms with the experience. In this thoughtful and readable book, she illustrates how writing helped her through diagnosis, treatment and recovery as well as the change in self-image following her mastectomy. In her frank expression of intense fear, anger and doubt, Myra Schneider includes notes and finished poems written during her period of recovery. She also offers practical support in the form of therapeutic writing suggestions for cancer sufferers, whether they are experienced authors or have never written before. Bringing together an unsparing but ultimately uplifting first-hand account of life with cancer and advice about writing as therapy, this engaging and positive book shows the benefits of expressing the self through writing. It will provide inspiration and support to anyone affected by cancer and useful insight for professionals involved in the care of cancer patients.
