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STRIPPED: Cancer, Culture, and the Cloud of Unknowing - Couverture souple

King, Heather

 
9781494964641: STRIPPED: Cancer, Culture, and the Cloud of Unknowing
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1494964643 ISBN 13 : 9781494964641
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

I’m a lawyer turned writer, a Catholic convert, and a sober alcoholic. In 2000, I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. The good news: a small tumor; the least advanced stage. Still, doctors recommended surgery, radiation, high-dose chemo, and five years of the aggressive hormone drug Tamoxifen. Terrified of dying, yet determined to steer my own course, I began researching. I found that chemo could kill, radiation could cause secondary cancers, Tamoxifen had severe side effects, and long-term studies on any of those treatments was virtually nil. STRIPPED is a memoir about coming to the decision to have the tumor surgically removed—and to forego all further treatment. To love this world with all my heart, even as I know I’ll be leaving it one day, is to dwell at the intersection of a cross where mystery, paradox, and a sense of humor meet. Which is maybe why the very best thing to come out of that dark-night-of-the-soul year was the phone call I made to my friend Brad the night I got the diagnosis. “Brad!” I keened. “I have it! I have cancer!”“That sucks,” he replied. “Could it have been that time I smoked in your car?”

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Présentation de l'éditeur

I’m a lawyer turned writer, a Catholic convert, and a sober alcoholic. In 2000, I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. The good news: a small tumor; the least advanced stage. Still, doctors recommended surgery, radiation, high-dose chemo, and five years of the aggressive hormone drug Tamoxifen. Terrified of dying, yet determined to steer my own course, I began researching. I found that chemo could kill, radiation could cause secondary cancers, Tamoxifen had severe side effects, and long-term studies on any of those treatments was virtually nil. STRIPPED is a memoir about coming to the decision to have the tumor surgically removed—and to forego all further treatment. To love this world with all my heart, even as I know I’ll be leaving it one day, is to dwell at the intersection of a cross where mystery, paradox, and a sense of humor meet. Which is maybe why the very best thing to come out of that dark-night-of-the-soul year was the phone call I made to my friend Brad the night I got the diagnosis. “Brad!” I keened. “I have it! I have cancer!”“That sucks,” he replied. “Could it have been that time I smoked in your car?”

Biographie de l'auteur

Heather King is the author of the memoirs PARCHED; REDEEMED; SHIRT OF FLAME: A Year with St. Thérèse of Lisieux; and POOR BABY. She lives in Los Angeles, speaks nationwide, and blogs at Heather King: Mystery, Smarts, Laughs [heather-king.com].

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1494964643
ISBN 13 
9781494964641
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
218
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