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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: Should be a required step in your cancer treatment to read
Review: This book should be given to all cancer patients, caregivers and family members during cancer treatment. It details thoughts and feelings you will have, but never imagined and ways to deal with them. There should be more books out there like this one. There is definitely a need for them! If I would have read this book during my treatment, it would have saved me a lot of money on therapy and antidepressants afterwards! The answer to surviving cancer and enjoying your life that follows is in this book! It is honestly the most helpful book I have read. God bless the authors!
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Summary: A must-read for cancer survivors and their supporters.
Review: You are diagnosed with cancer. Full of fear and grief, you face the prospect of a slow, painful death. You take treatment and, to your joy, it is successful. The cancer is gone and might not come back. Gratefully, you pick up the pieces of your life and try to start again. But it isn't easy.
It is at this point, say authors Glenna Halverson-Boyd and Lisa Hunter, that you enter limbo, the region between two extremes where you wait to see if you will live or die. The two authors, both survivors of serious cancers, throw out all the cliches and take a fresh look at the defence mechanisms patients use to cope with their fear. How can cancer patients face this fear of recurrence squarely and make sense of a life where the knowledge of death is always present? How can they relate to friends and family who have not had to face their own mortality?
The powerful last chapter ends on a note of joy, but it is no glib conclusion. This is a joy that has been earned by enduring the grief of "waking up in limbo" and learning to "dance" in the full realisation that death is part of life and in fact gives life its meaning.
Halverson-Boyd and Hunter are both health professionals. This gives their book authority but the way they share their personal stories and those of their interviewees, makes the book resound in the mind of this cancer survivor.
For all cancer survivors who are struggling with fear of recurrence, for all who try to counsel them or support them, this book is not to be missed!
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