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Summary: "Getting over" cancer never quite happens, here's why.
Review: "Limbo: A region on the border between hell and heaven where those who are not responsible for their fate await judgment day." "Limbo: A dance of West Indian origin...[that] requires strength and flexibility."So begins this interesting treatise on the psychology of survivorship, written by a dedicated pair of women, both survivors and both human development experts. For any number of cancer patients, the day will come, Halvorson-Boyd and Hunter explain, when all the Ivs have been pulled out, and the doctor has said, "You don't have to see me again." The fantastic focused determination that carried the patient through treatment is no longer needed and now comes the time- one would think - for that sigh of exquisite relief and return to normal life. Why is it then that so many in this position go home and fall apart? Why is it that life never really does return to normal? In a discourse that is part sharing of experience, part theorizing, the authors unpack these issues for us, outlining the stages survivors typically pass through and the strategies most effective in arriving at a new balance. Accessibly written with many memorable phrases from the authors and other survivors interviewed for the book. Will appeal to: Survivors, of course, especially intellectualizers nagged with unresolved anxiety. Also a good book for counselors and therapists.
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Summary: I am normal!!!
Review: After being diagnosed with cancer when I was 25 and also not personally knowing any cancer survivors, especially my age, I was so glad to find this book. I thought after the treatments were over and I was in remission I would feel normal, but instead I felt worse with depression, fear and anxiety. I thought I was just being ungrateful. I found this book and realized I was normal! So many told the same story as what I had been feeling. I never knew all those feelings were normal until I found this book. I recommend this book to every cancer survivor I meet. It helped me more than anything. I even dislike reading books and had never in my life read a complete book from front to back until I got this book. I read every page in less than two weeks and have went back through it over and over! Every survivor needs this book!!!
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Summary: I am normal!!!
Review: After being diagnosed with cancer when I was 25 and also not personally knowing any cancer survivors, especially my age, I was so glad to find this book. I thought after the treatments were over and I was in remission I would feel normal, but instead I felt worse with depression, fear and anxiety. I thought I was just being ungrateful. I found this book and realized I was normal! So many told the same story as what I had been feeling. I never knew all those feelings were normal until I found this book. I recommend this book to every cancer survivor I meet. It helped me more than anything. I even dislike reading books and had never in my life read a complete book from front to back until I got this book. I read every page in less than two weeks and have went back through it over and over! Every survivor needs this book!!!
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Summary: This book was critical to my recovery
Review: I can't remember who suggested this book to me while I was recovering from surgery and radiation for liposarcoma in my leg. It must've been someone from my online support group.
At the time I was physically recovering but mentally I had stalled and I couldn't understand why. Everything had gone as well as possible but still I was just moving in slow-motion, numb and kind of confused.
This book has a few basic elements that will apply to everyone who has been affected by cancer, the most important being that you will never find the old "normal" again, and that's why so many survivors feel lost during their recovery. Your old goal is gone but this book will help shed some light on the process, how it works, how it affects people and how you are not alone in your feelings.
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Summary: Dance of Life!
Review: I was introduced to Dancing In Limbo at a cancer conference in 1995 after I had been diagnosed with colon cancer. The whole conference environment was "Dancing in Limbo". It made my family wake up to the emotional devastion I was facing. I realized I was limbo, and I needed to move on. At this conference, I was inspired by the authors of Dancing In Limbo, and I was able to have a life after cancer. To this day, I highly recommend this book to every new diagosed person I meet. After reading this book, I knew it was the "Dance of Life"! (5 1/2 years later I am still living the dance!)
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Summary: Helpful
Review: It was a relief to find the jumble of powerful, conflicting emotions I'd been feeling put down into words by total strangers. Since my chemo finished, my friends and family were overjoyed and relieved, but all I felt was overwhelming sadness and fear with a far greater intensity than I'd experienced throughout my treatment phase, and this book was extremely helpful in my sorting out these emotions and letting me move on to my new post-diagnosis life. While the second half of the book works too hard to support their limbo/cancer connection and seemed to only repeat previous material in a different format, the first two chapters alone are worth the price of the book.
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Summary: Helpful
Review: It was a relief to find the jumble of powerful, conflicting emotions I'd been feeling put down into words by total strangers. Since my chemo finished, my friends and family were overjoyed and relieved, but all I felt was overwhelming sadness and fear with a far greater intensity than I'd experienced throughout my treatment phase, and this book was extremely helpful in my sorting out these emotions and letting me move on to my new post-diagnosis life. While the second half of the book works too hard to support their limbo/cancer connection and seemed to only repeat previous material in a different format, the first two chapters alone are worth the price of the book.
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Summary: wife of cancer survivor
Review: Thank you so much for this wonderful book! I have been a caregiver for my husband for the past 9 months. Once he got a "clean" bill of health I didn't know what to do with myself. I thought I was going crazy! You take charge and be the rock for so long and then all of the sudden you don't have to do all this stuff anymore. I went and saw a counselor at the cancer center and explained what I was feeling. She said I was right on schedule and I wasn't crazy. She suggested this book and I tell you what it was a life saver!!!!! Everytime I would be going through a moment I would read the book and I was right on schedule!!!! Scary!!!! I would recomend it to anyone who is dealing with life after cancer. Thank you so very much!!!!!! Peggy Coffey
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Summary: A fantastic resource!
Review: This book made all the difference to me when I finished my first rounds of chemotherapy back in 1998. Glenna and Lisa help make sense of the conflict we feel when our "active" role in fighting cancer is over, when we feel abandoned by our doctors and support networks. I've recommended this book many times to others currently in treatment, and they are astounded that they could ever "miss" going for their weekly chemo. Incredibly, the feeling is very common! I like to go back to the book on occasion myself; although I've been in active treatment for 3 years now, there are still times I find myself reaching for the wisdom and clarity that Glenna and Lisa bring to what is a bizarre, scary, demoralizing time. Highest recommendation!
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Summary: A fantastic resource!
Review: This book made all the difference to me when I finished my first rounds of chemotherapy back in 1998. Glenna and Lisa help make sense of the conflict we feel when our "active" role in fighting cancer is over, when we feel abandoned by our doctors and support networks. I've recommended this book many times to others currently in treatment, and they are astounded that they could ever "miss" going for their weekly chemo. Incredibly, the feeling is very common! I like to go back to the book on occasion myself; although I've been in active treatment for 3 years now, there are still times I find myself reaching for the wisdom and clarity that Glenna and Lisa bring to what is a bizarre, scary, demoralizing time. Highest recommendation!
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