Why We Walk

Why We Walk PDF Author: John Yow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401602208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
In this tribute to the millions who walk America's streets in order to combat breast cancer, the common thread is a quest for a cure. This title's brilliant photographs bring to life the stories that are told throughout the book, showing the strength, determination and joy that embody these walkers.

Why We Walk

Why We Walk PDF Author: John Yow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401602208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
In this tribute to the millions who walk America's streets in order to combat breast cancer, the common thread is a quest for a cure. This title's brilliant photographs bring to life the stories that are told throughout the book, showing the strength, determination and joy that embody these walkers.

Strength Renewed

Strength Renewed PDF Author: Shirley Corder
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441239642
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Book Description
Nothing can sap a person's strength and hope quite like a cancer diagnosis--unless it is the energy-stealing chemotherapy and surgeries faced in the fight against cancer. But one can find hope and strength in the pages of Scripture and in the experience of someone who has been there. Strength Renewed is an encouraging devotional for those living in the valley of cancer. Meditations combine Scripture and stories from the author's own experience and can be read in sequential order to move the reader through a typical cancer journey from diagnosis through treatment. Each devotion also stands on its own, so readers can go directly to the entry that speaks to their need. Each devotional includes a short prayer and a Scripture verse for encouragement.

Pink Ribbons, Inc

Pink Ribbons, Inc PDF Author: Samantha King
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816648986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Book Description
The commercialization of the breast cancer movement is challenged in this analysis of how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship.

Pink Prayer Book

Pink Prayer Book PDF Author: Diana Losciale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764817670
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Inspired and written by breast cancer patients and survivors and the mothers, daughters, sisters, brothers, husbands, and friends who surround them, "Pink Prayer Book" is deeply personal, yet universally evocative. From the first realization of diagnosis through treatment, recovery, and the hope of lasting remission, "Pink Prayer Book" offers prayers for the journey into healing. Incorporating Scriptures and prayers, this book offers support within a joyous healing network. These wonderfully personal prayers lift hearts and voices to ask for God's healing and never-ending love. View sample pages. "Paperback" Available for the Amazon Kindle: http: //www.pinkprayerbook.com/

Off Our Chests - A Candid Tour Through the World of Cancer

Off Our Chests - A Candid Tour Through the World of Cancer PDF Author: John Marshall
Publisher: Ideapress Publishing
ISBN: 9781646870486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :

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Book Description
A surprisingly open memoir co-authored by the married duo of a world class oncologist and a cancer survivor about love, pain, hope, strength and resilience while navigating the overwhelming breast cancer advocacy movement. Off Our Chests recounts the story of Liza and John's experience with her diagnosis and treatment. Written in alternating voices, Liza details her treatment, the complex decisions she had to make throughout her course of chemotherapy and radiation, including clinical trial participation and an elective double mastectomy, the added complexity of being treated at the cancer center of which John was the chief of hematology and oncology, and the emotional impact of knowing she may die as a young woman with young children. John, who lost his own mother to cancer at the age of 13, provides an inside look into the world of cancer care and research, but also the perspective of someone who understands the medicine but who was unprepared for assuming the role of caregiver and worried husband. John adds insights into his world of running the clinical operations of the cancer center where Liza would receive her care, commentary on the breast cancer machine, the need for clinical research, the high cost of cancer care, and an easy to understand explanation of the clinical and scientific background of oncology. While they both felt that they were already expert commentators on their own "Cancer Channel" during the course of Liza's illness, they both came to realize how little understanding they truly had of what a cancer diagnosis does to the patient, caregivers, children, family members, and friends. Liza and John share their most intimate thoughts, including many that were previously unsaid--even between the two of them. Both gain an understanding of the other's life, a deeper appreciation of what it means to be a cancer patient, and of the emotional strains of being an oncologist where so many of the patients die on their watch.

The Undying

The Undying PDF Author: Anne Boyer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations

A Survivor's Guide for the Breast Cancer Journey

A Survivor's Guide for the Breast Cancer Journey PDF Author: Kim Regenhard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980040807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Book Description
If a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the best thing she can do is Plan to live.?????? When a woman receives a breast cancer diagnosis, she finds herself at the start of a journey that will be marked by numerous decisions, doctor visits, tests, treatments, reports, medications, side effects, and stress ?????? as well as a unique range of emotions and personal life demands that can make "normal" life seem like a luxury or distant memory. A Survivor's Guide for the Breast Cancer Journey: An Organizer and Handbook for the Newly Diagnosed is a unique organizer and guide that helps women newly diagnosed with cancer understand, organize, plan, and record their journey from cancer diagnosis to recovery so that they are well-organized, well-informed, and better able to make critical decisions that can affect their chances of survival ?????? and so that women in the midst of breast cancer treatment can have time and energy to focus on what really matters: the people they love and becoming well.

Pretty Pink Ribbons

Pretty Pink Ribbons PDF Author: K. L. Grayson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990795520
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Book Description
Laney Jacobs moves back home to tell the man see loves (and broke his heart) how much he means to her before it's too late.

The Ribbon of Road Ahead

The Ribbon of Road Ahead PDF Author: Carol Clupny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733552400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Book Description
At age 50, Carol Clupny is diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Unable to work, she loathes being confined to an easy chair. Her shuffling walk to the mailbox results in trekking Spain's Camino de Santiago. Finding an old bicycle she trains to pedal across Iowa. Even brain surgery does not stop her from finding adventure when life changes courses

The Journey

The Journey PDF Author: Walter B. Varland
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1441562265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Book Description
Part memoir, part anecdotal family history and genealogy, this is a personal book that explores the parallel lives of a two individuals beginning in 1925. Their life journey brings them together, and the narratives highlight their early years together before they had children. The quest into family history led to the inclusion of vignettes about a few family members of yesteryears to remind us that the family circle is wide. It includes the living and the dead and the yet-to-be.