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I Am Not My Breast Cancer gathers the warm, loving, frank, and informed voices of more than eight hundred women—from every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africa—who reveal their fears, trade advice, share experiences, and express their deepest, most intimate concerns. Essential reading for any woman with this diagnosis, it offers the companionship of other women dealing with this disease. Taking the reader chronologically through the stages of diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and self-discovery, I Am Not My Breast Cancer offers women a deeper understanding of themselves and living with cancer.
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 edition (September 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061174076
ISBN-13: 978-0061174070
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #723,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #137 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Sexual Health > Women's Sexual Health #258 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diseases & Physical Ailments > Cancer > Breast Cancer #1953 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Women's Health > General
As a man whose wife is undergoing chemotherapy, I wanted to read this book for several reasons. I wanted as much understanding as possible about the emotional aspects for all involved, I wanted to see how well I was doing as the significant other and I wanted to Understand what I might be missing/overlooking about the whole process. This book did an incredible job answering all three questions. The distillation of wisdom, anger, hope and total honesty of the 800 women involved in the creation of this book is amazing. The brief, but succinct comments, collected on such a diverse arrangements of topics will not only provide helpful paths for those undergoing treatment, but also for ANY family member, friend or co-worker sincerely interested in understanding and supporting the individual battling the disease of breast cancer. This book should be in every public and health science library as it will do for the soul and spirit what other books cannot.
This book was the closest thing to group therapy I was able to have years after my breast cancer. Seeing what all those women had to say helped me deal with the issues I have now and have had since losing both of my breasts at 30 yrs old. The weight gain while people look at you funny thinking "HOW do you gain weight on chemo... yea right" when they have no idea how easily it happens, having one arm twice the size of the other because of lymphedema, and looking at clothes I so wish I could wear but don't have anything to hold them up anymore are the things getting to me most. BUT.. I am alive and that makes all the difference - not everyone that wrote in this book is, and I hurt for each and every one of them that lost their battle. This book may or may not help you grasp what a gift being alive really is, but it did so for me and is well worth a read. Shame there are only 5 stars.
Reading I Am Not My Breast Cancer is like attending a support group for women with breast cancer, only better. Instead of hearing the experiences of one or a few women, the reader shares the cancer journey with hundreds of women. The 800 women who participated in the original project from which the book is drawn are from all across the United States and from several other countries as well. They shared their feelings and experiences with openness and honesty. They laughed and cried together, gave each other advice, and bonded with each other.Ruth Peltason took those many and varied threads and wove them lovingly into this book. I Am Not My Breast Cancer is not a medical resource, it is a practical resource. It is not the story of one woman's breast cancer, it is the distillation of hundreds of women's experiences with breast cancer--young women, women in midlife, older women, women with early stage disease and women with metastatic disease. Ms. Peltason, herself a two time breast cancer survivor, treats each woman's experience with dignity and respect.Any woman touched by breast cancer will find herself in the pages of this book, and it will help those around her understand a little better what she may be going through. Cancer centers and doctors' offices should be sure this volume is added to their libraries--it fills a void and meets a need like no other book out there. As a breast cancer survivor, I say, "Thank you, Ms. Peltason, for writing I Am Not My Breast Cancer!"
This book should-WILL become a key resource for any woman (or man) who has recently been diagnosed with Breast cancer. It will also bring those who have lived with the disease in remission or hence eradicated, with a sense of comraderie that you rarely glimpse once you are "years out", as we say in the world of survivors. Anyone reading this collection of online dialogs will be able to relate to what is being said. Those who have "been there" will smile, laugh, cry and nod in agreement while reading through the hundreds of passages that have been included in this rich, compassionate and inspirational book. The author Ruth Peltason has also added her own notations peppered throughout, to share some of her own experience as a 2 time Breast Cancer survivor. These women GET IT! I believe this book will also aid those who have stood by watching helplessly as someone they love is effected by this horrendous disease. It allows others to see and feel what these women really went through. Buy this book for a friend, a co-worker, a loved one, or to share with a medical professional. The wisdom, the humor, the warmth that these women have shared online and now in book form is a personal journey that touches the soul. Highly Recommneded!
I purchased this book, along with four others, because I am writing a novel in which my character learns that she has breast cancer. I really wanted to know what she would be going through, and not just the medical side of it, but the emotional, the physical, the sexual and the psychological. It's all here and it comes directly from the women who experienced it. This is really a gem. I do not have breast cancer, thankfully, and I really hope I never have to endure these things that I've read about, however these women really shine in their honesty and their courage. I was shocked to learn how much they have to go through. They don't tell us these things. I had no idea that chemotherapy caused premature menopause. I knew it caused nausea, fatigue and hair loss but all of the other multitudes of difficulty, I just had no idea. Regardless if you have cancer or not, this book is something all women should read. I highly recommend it.
I loved this book! I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36 and this book saved me from a horrible depression. The stories of others in my same situation was so comforting.
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