Download or read book Saltwater Taffy and Red High Heels My Journey Through Breast Cancer written by Crystal Brown-Tatum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saltwater Taffy and Red High Heels is a manual for breast cancer patients and survivors. It details the author's journey through her diagnosis and recovery from Stage IIIA breast cancer.
Download or read book In the Company of My Sisters written by Karen Eubanks Jackson and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance as though no one is watching you Love as though you have never been hurt Sing as though no one can hear you Live as though heaven is here on earth - Anonymous For millions of women, the words "You have breast cancer" are a harsh reality. For Black women, those words hit especially hard as the mortality rate for Black women is staggering. It's a battle Karen Eubanks Jackson knows all too well. A FOUR-time breast cancer survivor, Jackson has used her triumphs, tragedies and lessons learned to inspire others. Now, she’s sharing it all in this evocative new book, In the Company of My Sisters. First diagnosed in 1993, Jackson knew little about the disease, despite the fact that she’d had a relative die from breast cancer. It was, after all, a silent shame the family kept. Determined to educate herself, Jackson devoured herself in research. And when she couldn’t find information or support specifically for Black women, she set out to fill that void, creating Sisters Network Inc., the only national survivorship-run organization designed to increase local and national attention to the devastating impact that breast cancer has in the Black community. In the Company of My Sisters is Jackson’s story. Her truth in battling the disease for 27 years. How she survived. How she succeeded and built a national sisterhood of Black breast cancer survivors. How she hopes to continue inspiring and educating others along the way. The book is filled with personal experiences and observations from Jackson as well as other survivors, this book will give insight into what shaped Jackson into a woman able to beat breast cancer – again and again and again. And with all the valuable information Jackson has accumulated over the years, the book will also serve as a one-stop resource for all your breast cancer questions. For those battling breast cancer, those walking the journey with survivors, and those who just want to educate themselves, In the Company of My Sisters will inspire you by the beauty and strength of the human spirit and why Jackson has made it her life’s mission change the course of the narrative surrounding the disease and help Black women take action to beat breast cancer.
Download or read book Chemo in Heels written by Lisa Grimaldi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Grimaldi resides in Hershey, Pennsylvania where she spends her days gracefully avoiding the dietary pitfalls of living surrounded by all things chocolate. Besides almost surviving breast cancer, she has also survived her bad hair of the 80's, the Carter years and the invention of Crocs. (Although, she did have to seek professional help for the Croc invasion.) Ms. Grimaldi is the mother of four: A 23 year old very quiet law student, a 20 year old college sophomore majoring in environmental science who finds his mother's shoe collection an immense waste of natural resources, but loves her nonetheless, a 39 year old husband who thinks she spends too much money on shoes, b ut never argues when she wears his favorite pairs, and a 5 year old Yorkie who just plain loves her and spends many days on her lap writing in her closet. Chemo in Heels is Ms. Grimaldi's first publication.
Download or read book Treasures in Darkness written by Taffy A. Anderson and published by Northfield Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a woman, who is also a doctor, a wife, a sister, an aunt--and a seeker of the treasure God had for her while she went through the darkness of breast cancer.
Download or read book It s My Fault written by Sherry Kay Thompson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people say such crazy things to people who have cancer? What should you say when someone tells you it is your fault? The author learned how to move beyond caring what people think and began accepting her cancer and embracing her life!
Download or read book I Love My Boobies written by Sherry Thompson and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people say such crazy things to people who have cancer? What should you say when someone tells you it is your fault? Author Sherry Thompson learned how to move beyond caring what people think and began accepting her cancer and embracing her life!
Download or read book Booting Breast Cancer written by Deborah L. Olson and published by Deborah L Olson. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you or someone you know facing breast cancer? Booting Breast Cancer is a memoir of the author's journey through breast cancer. It will be helpful for you if you are beginning your journey, as well as anyone who will be with you along the way. Your first thought may be that this book is for females only, right? Actually, not necessarily. Included is a special section on what the journey was like for the author's husband and words of wisdom from him. The author shares her experiences through various stages of the process. The author's story is real, raw, and totally transparent. Although cancer is NOT a laughing matter, her way of dealing with serious situations is to try and make light of them, to laugh instead of cry, to smile instead of frown. You will be inspired, educated, and above all, encouraged. You are not alone in your journey. Open your heart and your arms and they will both be filled with love and support. Although her journey was not one she would like to repeat, it was all part of God's Plan for her and her promise to Pay It Forward.
Download or read book Breast Cancer written by Beverly Stacy Dittmer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unplanned Journey relates the adventures of my walk on the Cancer road. It stresses the lessons that Cancer taught me. It tells the reader about my fears and my struggles in dealing with Cancer - the acceptance of having the disease, the surgeries, and its treatments. This book is written in an effort to assure any woman or man with Cancer that there is an end to the long journey. My readers should be assured that they are not alone. Today most Cancers are curable if they can be found early. Happiness and normal life will return again at the end of the journey. Book Review: Breast Cancer The Unplanned Journey Lessons Learned By Beverly Stacy Dittmer Reviewed by Mary Ann Noonan Breast Cancer The Unplanned Journey Lessons Learned, is the very personal journal of Beverly Stacy Dittmer's passage from finding a lump in her breast, through her anxious wait for the confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer that every woman dreads to hear, through her one step at a time trek from surgery through treatment and complications, and, finally, to a realization that life goes on and can become normal again. Beverly as a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, and a professional woman shares critical, yet sensitive, information about her diagnosis of breast cancer and its treatment. She makes it quite clear in the copyright page that "the medical statements in this book are only what I understood and are not to be taken as true medical facts," continuing that her knowledge about breast cancer was obtained in years 2003 and 2004. In addition, she includes a personal touch to her 222 page manuscript describing many relationships and human interest stories about life with her husband, her family, her friends, her personal activities, and travels. The reader follows Beverly as she relates her cancer journey one step at a time-the good times and the bad. In a detailed, remarkably sensitive, casual, almost speaking to the audience style, Dittmer writes about everyday life while facing a life threatening condition. She shares words of advice and reminders about living each day with confidence and courage that there is light at the end of the tunnel while including "lessons learned" in the last four pages. Encouragement is granted to the reader by the author's constructive council that "there is an end to this long journey." Through her direct and candid accounts it was obvious that she was not alone in this walk. As a professional nurse practitioner and retired professor of nursing, reading Beverly Stacy Dittmer's personal story reinforces the importance for health care providers to listen and to be present to all individuals for whom they care. For the person with a life-threatening illness, this read will provide a source of strength and encouragement. For the student of nursing and medicine it is a must read.
Download or read book My Journey Through Breast Cancer written by Eve Preste and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve Preste, aka Eve Dolansky grew up in a small town in Appleton, New York on a large fruit farm. She went to college at Niagara University and Buffalo State College to study journalism. After meeting her first husband, she moved to Florida and had two daughters, Alexis and Sierra. She then, embarked on a 20 year journey in the financial industry. At 45, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Journaling became her vehicle of deliverance from a bottomless abyss. Writing in her journal allowed a to spend time and make some sense of this surreal dream. By exploring deep within her, she began to develop clarity in the midst of a storm. After yielding to the higher power, it helped her welcome the beauty of the entire situation. As Dr. Wayne Dyer says: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Perfect health is balanced by a life threatening disease. Once an equilibrium is maintained, we can understand that opposites are joined together. When suffering comes our way, it is how we respond to it that determines who we become. It was her choice to make a calamity or true gift out of her illness. Rather than lamenting, Eve chose to be grateful for each sunrise, sunset person and circumstance in her life. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Eve embarked on a new journey of wellness. She hopes to establish a wellness center to help people balance their mind body and spirit. One major event can turn one's life around for the better: we hold true to the saying, "Things happen for a reason."
Download or read book There Goes That Damn Other Shoe Again written by Angela Gisonni and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Gisonni was no stranger to heartache and the harsh realities of the world. Her parents, her youngest sister, and a close aunt all died within a four-year span. But her determination and sense of humor carried her through those hellish four years-and it was those same qualities that Angela would rely on in 2012 when she received life-changing news. After more than a decade of clean scans, Angela's latest mammogram picked up something important. There was no doubt about it. She had breast cancer. The journey that follows is not easy. In There Goes That Damn Other Shoe Again!, Angela chronicles one of the most difficult periods of her life. At the same time, she never stops finding the humor in her situation. She shares the small joys of her recovery and the invaluable support that helped her through her treatment. Her observations about the surprising, strange, and downright bizarre realities of life as a cancer patient will bring a smile to your face. Whether you're facing a similar illness or want to support a loved one going through treatment, Angela's work makes the future seem a little less frightening and a little more fun.
Download or read book Songs from a Lead Lined Room written by Suzanne Strempek Shea and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs from a Lead-Lined Room is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal experience of radiation treatment. As with Shea's best-selling fiction, her sharp and insightful wit and her reporter's eye for the most telling and sometimes quirky details inform every page. She shares what she learns about the process of her treatment, her bouts of despair, indignity, and fear, as well as the faux pas, the innocent blunders, and the compassion and caring of her family, friends, and fellow patients
Download or read book My Journey Through Breast Cancer written by Suze Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one, ordinary, woman's journey through treatment for breast cancer and beyond. Still thriving 12 years later, she offers an insight into the actual process of chemotherapy and its side effects, hospitals and support services, as well as the affect on family members. It's not an easy journey and it's one I m always thankful to have survived. I know I am one of the lucky ones, why, I do not know. It may be attitude, it may be luck but all I knew was that life would be different from then on.
Download or read book Taken to My Knees written by Kimberley Rideout and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 14, 2012, Kim Rideout heard the words that one in every nine women will hear in her lifetime: she had breast cancer. Taken To My Knees is a candid memoir written from the daily journals she kept as she underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments to deal with the IDC Stage IIB breast cancer she had been diagnosed with. Rideout recounts how scared she was in those early days with a brutal honesty. She takes her audience along with her as she makes daily attempts to reconcile her "new normal" with the gut-wrenching fear that a cancer diagnosis brings. In sharing her story, Rideout demonstrates how important it is to be surrounded with love, family, and friendship and how a positive attitude can be just as important in the healing process as any medication. This poignant book will provide a firsthand insight to family, friends, and caregivers of any breast cancer patient as well as give hope and strength to fellow warrior survivors.
Download or read book March Forth written by Marci A. Schmitt and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Insightful Journey That Will Speak to Anyone Affected by Cancer! In March Forth, author Marci A. Schmitt takes us inside her eye-opening journey with breast cancer. March Forth provides a remarkably detailed portrayal of her experiences following her diagnosis. Schmitt's faith-filled journey details her initial shock and confusion when told she had breast cancer and how she grappled with a bewildering array of treatment options and insurance issues. This is a deeply personal yet universal, spiritual yet practical book that will speak to anyone affected by cancer. In this moving journey, we experience firsthand the physical and mental challenges of being diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. Although sprinkled with humor, Schmitt's account pulls no punches in describing the long and grueling recovery process a breast cancer survivor experiences. More important, March Forth offers an understanding of how to support a friend or relative dealing with cancer. This powerful, informative, and inspiring journey will make readers laugh one moment and cry the next. "This heartwarming story, told through the eyes of a breast cancer survivor, helped me understand the process and challenges one faces with cancer. It offers great insight into what a person goes through, and most importantly offers an understanding of how to support a friend or relative dealing with cancer. Laugh, cry, and 'march forth' with Marci." -J. Wilhelmus, Educator "As I read this book, I was crying and laughing. All I can say is WOW!!!" About the Author Marci Schmitt is a breast cancer survivor. She grew up on a dairy farm in southern Indiana with her dad, mom, and three siblings. A former educator, supervisor, and coach, she is now a stay-at-home mom. She enjoys spending time with her family and volunteering in her community, at her church, and at her two sons' school activities.
Download or read book My Journey With Breast Cancer written by Edie Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Breast Life written by Sarah Altman and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of her own experience, My Breast Life chronicles Sarah Altman's experience with breast cancer in a candid, authentic, transparent and humorous way. From diagnosis, surgery, chemo and recovery, you'll feel like you're going through the experience with a friend as Sarah openly shares her challenges and insights. She even discusses some of those things you've always wondered about cancer but never wanted to ask, like what does chemo really feel like and what happens to your boobs during a mastectomy.This book can help you on your own journey with cancer or serve as a guide in supporting a loved one.
Download or read book Losing the Girls written by Shirley Alarie and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the breast cancer journey and beyond in Losing the Girls, a unique memoir differentiated by the author's cutting-edge nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) a little-known breast cancer surgery technique that leaves the breast completely whole. Shirley Alarie shares her story to boost awareness of this specialized procedure, which is only offered at select hospitals. She believes that women facing mastectomies deserve to know all of their options. Shirley found that the biggest challenge of her life began with a convoluted breast cancer diagnosis; and then there was the overwhelming array of surgery options. Mastectomy or lumpectomy? Single mastectomy or double? Reconstruction or no reconstruction? She worried about making the right choice and how her decision would affect her both in the short and long term. How would it affect her marriage? Was it crazy to choose a hospital three hours from home? After the surgery, Shirley's determination to beat the cancer triggered a lifestyle transformation that resulted in a stronger, more empowered woman. Her deep faith in God and her peace with the afterlife helped shape her response to this life-changing ordeal with cancer and the love and support of an amazing posse of family and friends, along with a liberal dose of humor and hope, pulled her through the darkness and back into the warm, sunny light. Losing the Girls is a powerful and uplifting book that every woman and the people who love them should read. About the Author: Shirley Alarie wrote her memoir in order to spread awareness of NSM, and she published a website that identifies some of the hospitals that perform this surgery. Check it out at http: //nsmcenter.blogspot.com/. Or join her on Facebook to celebrate God's presence in our world at Finding God Among Us. What others had to say: A beautifully written story. I cried, I laughed, I smiled, I was amazed. Thank you for being so honest. - Emily Gullo. Amazing, successful, and real are the words th
