Laughing through the Tears of Breast Cancer is a source of inspiration for women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, and for their caregivers. The easy-to-read style of writing takes you through a year-long journey of dealing with the emotional experiences of the breast cancer diagnosis and the physical treatments that lead to eventual healing.
Although it is a personal journey, this story offers enough similarities that help those who are part of the breast cancer “sisterhood” recognize that, even as they are experiencing their own pain related to this diagnosis, many blessings will result.
By sharing her story through journal writings, emails and inspirational messages, Carla creates enjoyable reading, in a girl-talk format, with an abundant amount of practical information about breast cancer. You will laugh while the tears flow from your eyes as you read her story and share her experiences.
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At age 36, Julie Silver was enjoying an exciting career as a physician at the Harvard Medical School and a rewarding personal life as a mother, wife, and award-winning writer. But she had the sense that something was wrong. Two years and multiple doctors later, she was diagnosed with the breast cancer she had suspected all along and was catapulted into the role of cancer patient.
Like many cancer patients who experience serious side effects from treatment, Dr. Silver emerged from therapy feeling not better, but exhausted and physically devastated. As she worked to heal herself, she became determined to write a book to help others recover after cancer treatment.
Here Dr. Silver shares her own cancer journey and offers a step-by-step plan for physical healing, including exercise and diet recommendations and instructions for fighting fatigue, monitoring mood, and overcoming setbacks. Dr. Silver’s advice comes from the heart—and from her experience as both a cancer survivor and a doctor who has spent her career helping people heal from serious illnesses and injuries. No matter where they are in their own journey with cancer, readers will find After Cancer Treatment a personal, practical, and powerful guide to recovery.
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This is a story about a young woman with a very common but deadly illness who did a very uncommon thing when faced with that disease. She disagreed with her doctors, rejected their treatment advice, and chose her own path to getting well again. She did this in the face of paralyzing fears of dying and leaving behind a motherless daughter. She did this in the face of the daunting task of researching and choosing a better treatment. She did this in the face of the intense pressures of social conformity telling her to listen to her doctors. What she did was extraordinarily brave and forward-thinking. In effect, she forged a better path through a thicket of fear, complexity, and pressure. She forged this path with the help of her husband, working as a team and exhibiting unyielding togetherness. This book chronicles the journey they took together, back to health.
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A practical guide for women to accelerate and ease recovery from breast cancer surgery and other breast-related surgeries offers exercises to strengthen the body and relieve pain, uses real women’s stories as examples, and addresses emotional issues involved. Original. IP. Diana Stumm, a physical therapist for breast cancer patients for nearly 30 years, describes the physical difficulties, such as severe pain and loss of motion, that patients may encounter after breast cancer surgery. Utilizing her experience and understanding of breast surgery and recovery, she writes eight concise and well-organized chapters on how to speed up the process of recovery. The tone is anecdotal, as she tells the story of numerous past patients struggling with their recovery. Using interesting dialogue about common breast-surgery recovery complications as well as the various treatments or rehabilitation procedures, Stumm tells an engaging story to recovering patients or soon-to-be ones of successful and self-fulfilling rehabilitation. “Terry was experiencing the most intense period of the skin hypersensitivity phase, which I call the ‘novocaine effect.’ During the first week after surgery, the skin of her upper inner arm was numb. Then, as feeling returned, she had predictable sensations of irritation and hypersensitivity. Now her arm felt sunburned and raw.”
As she walks “Terry” through the exercises, Stumm concurrently coaches the reader in a nonthreatening and memorable way. Exercises and illustrations to help strengthen and restore full movement in one’s arm texture the book as they relate to specific recovery stages. Stumm explains the complications that can happen after an implant and tissue transplant and illustrates exercises to help overcome them. In addition, she prepares readers for radiation and makes them aware of what to expect from the treatments. When asked whether treatments will make a patient sick, Stumm responds, “No. That’s because your digestive tract is not exposed. You may well notice some fatigue, especially during the last few weeks. Your body feels drained of energy because it is working hard to repair normal cells damaged by the radiation. It is also tiring just to get yourself into the hospital every day for the treatments.” Not only does Strumm provide a wealth of useful information, she does so with utmost compassion. –Cate Bick
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Dr. Ernest Cohn, MD: "This book is by far the most complete and accurate review of alternative therapies I’ve seen in the 30+ years of my practice. I recommend our patients read this book now before we accept them for care here. It can save a patient’s life."
Dr.Pavel Yakovlev, MD: "The material in this book is enriching and hope-giving for clinical practice. I like the way you finish your book, with a notion of spiritual cancer, which is very important to remember when dealing with the patient."
Dr. Rashid Buttar: "I plan on recommending it to all my patients suffering from cancer who seek treatment at our clinic so that the light of truth and hope contained within this book can shine brightly on them as well."