Bibliograph

The language of healing, daily comfort for women living with breast cancer, Pat Benson & Linda Dackman

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The language of healing, daily comfort for women living with breast cancer, Pat Benson & Linda Dackman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The language of healing

Responsibility statement

Pat Benson & Linda Dackman

Sub title

daily comfort for women living with breast cancer

Summary

This wise little book of 150 meditations is like a breast cancer support group. It is exactly what a woman recuperating in her hospital bed or during any of the other milestones of treatment and recovery might need--the advice and wisdom of other women who have preceded her in confronting breast cancer. Gathered here are moving reflections, anecdotes, and practical information for women concerned with or diagnosed with this disease. Built upon the experiences of women of all ages-women who have undergone all types of breast surgery and treatments from lumpectomy and mastectomy to radiation and chemotherapy; women who are single, married, divorced, widowed, straight, gay-the reflections touch upon topics as universal as fear and grief and as intimate as sex. The meditations help women:discover healing insights and supportexplore options for defining a "new normal"commit to living each and every moment, fully and fearlesslyEvery three minutes a woman in America is diagnosed with breast cancer. Shocking but true. And -- is a place for all those women to find comfort and strength, day by day, and a reminder that breast cancer patients - at any stage of the disease or recovery - are not alone

Table Of Contents

After diagnosis -- A time to cry -- Reactions -- Coping -- Decisions -- Treatment and recovery -- A time to heal -- Surgery -- Chemotherapy & radiation -- Reconstruction -- Body & self -- Relationships -- Sexuality -- Survival -- A new normal -- A time to live -- Endings -- In between -- New beginnings

Target audience

adult

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