Download or read book My Cancer Journey Via Poetry written by Craig M. Pattberg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The thoughts and feelings of a cancer survivor's often lonely journey."--

Download or read book My Poetry Trip Through Cancer written by Diane Parkhurst and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of God-inspired poetry given to the author for comfort during her journey through a cancer diagnosis and recovery. The author shares poems written about the fear of cancer through the amazing gifts given to her by God.

Download or read book For Thou Art with Me written by Judith Lane Bynum and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every person who goes through the emotional and physical upheaval of cancer has a story. Most, however, do not write it down. In this remarkable collection of poems, Judith Bynum has shared a bit of her soul. In the midst of her pain and suffering of cancer, she expresses hanging questions, lingering doubts, and uncertain futureswhat most people cannot easily verbalize. When she felt her worst, the verses came rumbling and tumbling out of her in the wee hours of the morning, calming the pain in the process. The poems were her ladder out of the hole. In times when she felt her faith and hope slipping, the poetry helped her look up, and there was God, always near. The power of the poems is that they were written in the midst of the pain, not afterward, looking back. Judiths ability to express herself will hopefully help a cancer victim who is struggling to find the right words. That in itself is powerful. Sharing her weaknesses and vulnerabilities is what makes these poems real. Often she offers a humorous view of the trials of cancer and the changes it wreaks on the body and spirit. There is no resignation or acquiescence in the words, both of which are seen often among those who are struggling; instead, there is acceptance and surrender. In the midst of her questions and pains, her faith shines through. This powerful book will inspire readers to remember that God is always near.

Download or read book My Mother s Journey with Cancer written by Saroj D Ram and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mother, Dr. Saroj Ram, passed away on November 20, 2014 at the age of 84, after a seven-year struggle with breast cancer. As an avid poet, she shared her unique perspective on her life and journey with cancer in a collection of poems. She wrote from her vantage point as a physician, spouse, mother, grandmother, and a deeply spiritual person. This is the story of my journey with my mother through her terminal illness. It tries to capture the incredible courage and faith by which she accepted her fate. In her writing and in mine, I hope our experience rings true for others and provides some comfort. Too many of our loved ones have had to walk this devastating path. Sonia Anand

Download or read book My Poetry Trip through Recovery written by Diane Parkhurst and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written during a very difficult recovery from pancreatic cancer. I had a nine-and-a-half-hour surgery to remove ten cancerous tumors from my pancreas and duodenum. My entire way of life had changed because of the removal of part of my stomach, pancreas, and intestines. My patience and faith was tested. During this recovery, God gave me poetry and was faithful during this difficult journey.

Download or read book My Journey with Kaptin Karrot written by Stephen Neiheisel and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Journey with Kaptin Karrot is how a friend, using poetry, dealt with the sickness and death of his closest friend.

Download or read book Coming to Terms written by Paula Gliot and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems were inspired by a battle with cancer that required the author to dig deep every day for the inspiration to continue. Each poem is a rallying cry of life that defeats death, a ferocious shout that fights against the darkness. Reading them is to be filled with a gratitude and joy for each day of life.

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 My Journey Thru L written by Bill Castle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life happens. Sometimes we need a good listener to help us sort out our emotional response. Bill Castle was one of those people. With a hopeful spirit and an engaging personality, he had made more that a thousand hours of hospital visits for Mended Hearts, Inc. and had spent many, many more hours as a Stephen Minister and a member of his church's Pastoral Care Team. In that time he had listened to hundreds of people share their fears, needs and observed how they were coping. So when he was faced with lymphoma himself, he chose to use poetry, a life long hobby, as his way of expressing his feelings. "My Journey Thru "L" chronicles the day by day, ups and downs of living with chemotherapy, and highlights the need for humor, support and a faithful spirit. It is also something of a love story. Bill saw this book as "the lemonade from his lymphoma". It offers insights and information to anyone facing the same journey. It also helps caregivers understand that they too are on this journey, and how important their response is to their patient and loved ones.

Download or read book A Pathway to Healing written by Margaret Towner and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pathway to Healing: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose is a collection of expressive writing and art by participants in the workshop entitled Writing Through the Cancer Journey, at MemorialCare Todd Cancer Institute (TCI), Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. The eight-week session, held three times a year, offers ways for participants to explore and share their thoughts and emotions concerning diagnosis, treatment, and healing. Literary forms and prompts are introduced, along with mindfulness meditation and articles about wellbeing and creative expression, for attendees to respond to their grave and unpredictable illnesses. As a group, they explore their deepest joys and worries about their personal journeys as they practice expressive writing in a safe and supportive environment. Writing Through the Cancer Journey has been offered by Margaret Towner since 2015. Facilitating workshops in wellbeing and education for years, she has a wealth of experience along with her own insights as a cancer survivor and published writer. Recent research has shown that expressive writing is helpful in reducing stress and anxiety, ameliorating physical symptoms, and strengthening the possibility of recovery and well-being. Backed by these findings, Margaret is a firm believer that creative expression, and in particular writing, can help patients turn toward resilience, tranquility, and potential healing.Expressive writing is supported by Mariusz Wirga M.D., Medical Director of Psychosocial Oncology at TCI. His programs, Beat the Odds and Boost the Odds, offer patients pathways toward physical and emotional well-being. Writing Through the Cancer Journey uses expressive writing as an additional pathway of support for patients. During the workshop, the idea evolved to publish a book to share writing with a broader audience. The courageous contributors to this book have been participants in all these programs, and in the writing workshop they have found ways to express their rich insights about themselves in literary forms such as haiku, free verse, journaling, and storytelling. The selections in this book include writings about diagnosis, treatment, living with uncertainty, finding simple pleasures, resilience, life's vital activities, and love, along with the participants' own visual art.

Download or read book Waiting Rooms written by Laura L. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cancer a Funny Thing Happened written by Sondra Ammeen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My cancer journey began with a diagnosis of stage four metastatic breast cancer. So I decided that I needed to do something helpful and fun with the rest of my life. I began studying everything that happened to me. I hope you'll join me on this quest and I really hope you'll laugh!!

Download or read book Cancer as Spiritual Teacher written by Donald T Iannone, PH D and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Cancer as Spiritual Teacher is a collection of poems about reclaiming and engaging our spirits during the cancer journey. It encourages the reader to view the cancer healing journey as a spiritual pilgrimage, much like pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain in search of spiritual insight and direction. The poems in this book speak to the inner (mind and spirit) and outer (body) dimensions of this journey. As pilgrims, the Camino requires our commitment to walk each day with openness, gentleness gratitude, and healing intention. Our cancer journeys require the same of us. About the Author Don Iannone serves as a faculty member at the Business School of the European Union-based Transcontinental University. Together with his wife, Mary, he has been providing part-time complementary medicine services to patients at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center for the past seven years. Don's expansive 47-year career has led him to 32 states, 10 countries, and 10 American Indian reservations. He is the author of twenty-two books that cover nonfiction, poetry, and photography, in addition to numerous articles in academic and professional journals. Born in the steel and coal regions of Eastern Ohio, Don's early life in Martins Ferry and St. Clairsville lends a genuine depth to his life story. He and his wife reside in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Don holds doctorates in Divinity and Philosophy.

Download or read book Through Your Doors Again A Journey in Poetry from Classroom to Chemotherapy written by Cathy O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of my ways of dealing with breast cancer was through writing poetry, to document both the good and the challenging. All profits from the sale of this book go to a cancer charity Cork ARC House which supported me on my cancer journey.

Download or read book Notes from the Undaunted written by Jane H Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong, healthy man has a routine chest x-ray and a terrifying result is discovered. Not only does his body harbor cancer, but it is stage four metastasized melanoma. How will he handle this deathly diagnosis emotionally and physically? The safe life he knowns has suddenly vanished. Is death imminent? Can revolutionary treatments save his life? Every excruciating minute holds an unknown fate. How do his wife, children and friends react to this unexpected life changing threat? If you have cancer or have a family member or friend who has suffered from this horrendous illness, you will want to read about this man's courageous travels on the cancer road. His mental anguish will resonate with your feelings. You will no longer feel isolated by the unthinkable nightmare that is cancer. His sad and uplifting story is told in poetic form with compassion, clarity and insight.

Download or read book Emotions Gathered Along My Journey with Breast Cancer written by Patricia Mercy Sithole and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 73 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 Ode To My Node written by S J Gooderham and published by S. Gooderham. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ode To My Node is an empowering poetry book about a lymph-node that turned out to be cancerous. This is about the symptoms of cancer, tumour humour, love, heartbreak, coping with sickness, chemotherapy, trauma, loss, depression, grief, healing, self-love, self-awareness, hope, inner strength, personal transformation, and growth. Whether you are struggling with a new cancer diagnosis, know someone who just got a cancer diagnosis, a cancer patient, a cancer survivor, or someone dealing with loss, or grief, or looking for meaningful and empathetic words. This inspiring poetry book offers guidance for healing, personal transformation, and growth for both women and men of all ages. Written for all those stages of before, during, and after cancer moments. Each poem invites readers to dive deeper into a journey of self-awareness and healing, turn tears into hope, overcome illness, rise again, and focus on growth and takes us on The Ultimate Journey of knowing we are not alone. These healing words are meant to find you wherever you are. Get your beautiful copy today or gift it to a loved one who needs to hear healing poems that smile in our heart.