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Life After Cancer Treatment is a booklet for people who have completed cancer treatment. This booklet covers your new normal, getting follow-up medical care, and how to talk with your doctor, following a survivorship care plan, ways to manage physical changes, body changes and intimacy issues, coping with your feelings, and going back to work.

Baker, knitter, animal lover, wife, mother - but most of all, a writer. That's how Eliza Walton sees herself. Until, halfway through her MFA studies, a diagnosis of rectal cancer lands on her head. Fear, shame, and dread threaten to pull her under. How to face an anxiety-laden year of radiation, chemo, and a permanent colostomy?

The purpose of the audiobook is to inform cancer patients and there families on how to put the right foods inside the human body before and after cancer treatments and nutrition's such as foods that boost the immune system for cancer patients such as meats, fruits, and vegetables that go into there diets and small tricks on how to work up a appetite and much more.

The purpose of this book is to inform cancer patients and their families on how to put the right foods inside the human body before and after cancer treatments, and nutrition such as foods that boost the immune system for cancer patients, such as meats, fruits, and vegetables that go into their diets. Also included are small tricks on how to work up an appetite, and much more.

This book is written from an actual survivor who wants to provide helpful information to anyone, who is going through their own serious health issue or is close to someone who is battling through a major medical problem. The author was a caregiver and then went through his own cancer diagnosis and treatments. These provided the experiences to learn how to recognize and manage the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that everyone must face during these difficult times.

So, you were just diagnosed with breast cancer - what now? Hold on! There is hope. You can take control of your journey to recovery, feel connected to yourself and others, and get through this. Join Birgitte (Deda) Wilms as she recounts her breast cancer journey and learn how she got through all of her therapy, treatments, surgeries, and turned her experience into a blessing. Birgitte's road wasn't easy, but she is now fully cured and thriving, and you can be as well. Don’t go through this journey alone; listen to Live Well beyond Breast Cancer today.

This book is written from an actual survivor who wants to provide helpful information to anyone who is going through their own serious health issue or is close to someone who is battling through a major medical problem. The author was a caregiver and then, went through his own cancer diagnosis and treatments. These provided the experiences to learn how to recognize and manage the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that everyone must face during these difficult times.

If you’ve ever been ugly dumped, knocked off your feet, financially devastated, stunned by a potentially fatal diagnosis, or paralyzed by fear, you’ll find comfort and strategies for surviving and eventually thriving in this book. Her surprising journey through the maze of illness, treatment, surgery, and recovery, along with her stubborn daily practice of gratitude, even when she wanted to throw her gratitude journal off a cliff, will leave you laughing, crying, and hopefully feeling grateful, even when it seems impossible.

Like most cancer survivors, you never saw it coming and may still find yourself unable to thrive in your "new normal". Even though you are determined to make the most of every day, deep down you are frustrated by a quality of life that is less than optimal. Do you have questions about what lies ahead and worry about a cancer comeback? The good news is that you can move beyond this disease.

Finding a cancerous lump in her breast seven weeks after a clean mammogram was terrifying. But fitness expert and race announcer Fitz Koehler refused to play the victim or allow cancer to steal her extraordinary career or time with family. In My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle, all while zigzagging across the United States.

Eine Geschichte aus und über das Leben. Wie man mit Mut, Lebensfreude und einer guten Portion Selbstironie eine Chemotherapie sowie den ganz normalen Krankenhaus-, Behörden- und Versicherungswahnsinn überleben kann! Ich möchte Menschen, die vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen stehen, helfen, nicht den Mut zu verlieren. Ich habe auf meinem Weg auch viel über mich als Person gelernt und ich freue mich, wenn Sie mich jetzt rückblickend begleiten und ich Ihnen etwas von meiner Lebensfreude abgeben kann.

After receiving her second cancer diagnosis in 10 years, with little hope of recovering given to her by the medical community, Jayka Duncan set forth on a mission to heal. After trying everything, she was shocked to find that the cancer had spread from her breast to her cervix and uterus. Brought to her knees, Jayka finally surrendered. This is when the true healing began.

Frightened by cancer? Riddled with questions? Perhaps you or a loved one is battling this disease. Do you know where to turn for encouragement, comfort and support? In Her Shoes: Dancing in the Shadow of Cancer is a collection of vignettes, highlighting the stories of everyday women with everyday lives interrupted by cancer - their challenges, heartbreaks, questions, and triumphs. Each devotional focuses on one aspect of their cancer journey.

Is there more we should know about cancer and could we do more ourselves in times of need? Are we receiving the best treatment our doctors can possibly offer? Is chemotherapy, radiation or surgery the only answer? This journey started some nine years ago having witnessed the loss of many loved ones to cancer. The ideas and methods outlined in this book are inexpensive solutions that can be integrated into any routine. Avoiding and switching our perceptions cost nothing and can have the biggest impacts when we become conscious consumers.

Cancer is a monster. Aside from cancer itself, a patient’s biggest enemy is fear. Fear paralyzes us. It affects our thinking, decisions, actions, and well-being. For all my family and friends who know me and helped support me through my diagnosis and treatment, they will tell you I appeared like a rock, strong and determined to get through the treatments, to beat cancer’s ass, and to come out stronger.

Rarely does someone so joyfully authentic come along and flash a light so bright, you can’t help but feel a rush of hope. Ryder Buck was such a guy. He was charming and hilarious, ornery and aggravating, and he delighted in his love of music. Nothing more and nothing less than himself, his self-acceptance fueled his audacious dreams and taught him to have faith and just let go.

In June of 2014, Terry Thornhill was stricken with one of the most deadly forms of cancer — metastatic breast cancer. She was instantly told there were no viable treatments and the disease is fast-moving. She was warned to prepare her family as she would not last through the coming holiday season. With the valor of the most brave warriors, Terry began an all-out war with this evil killer. She did not give up, never surrendered.

Mary Dunnewold was a yoga-practicing, organic-food-eating health geek. But six months after a clear mammogram, she was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. She had six tumors. The largest was the size of a summer plum. In the next two years, she endured a bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, and multiple reconstruction procedures. But she soon learned that navigating cancer involves more than suffering through the treatment gauntlet. How do you walk the aisles of a small-town Target, guilty of having cancer in public, wondering who knows and who doesn’t?

In Doctors Are Not Gods, Michelle Cox shares her very personal experiences of both her mother being medically mistreated and her own case of being misdiagnosed for months before needing emergency surgery for cervical cancer. With an attitude of learning from mistakes, Michelle asks what she herself could have done better in order to be the boss of her own health and well-being in future and stop handing over the power of something so important to others.

Cancer is a killer. It stormed onto the scene, showing no remorse. Colin and his family were no match for what they were up against. Face to face with tragedy, they were left with a choice. Would they cower down and "hang on tight", hoping the inevitable passed them by? Or, in the midst of adversity, would they rise up and overcome what was meant to destroy them?