Everyday Cancer: Nobody told me it would be like this - Couverture souple

James Dennis Paffrath

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609440056 ISBN 13 : 9781609440053

Editeur : JP Publications, 2010

Synopsis

I reveal the distressing; the insightful, and the absurd in a diary format, starting with diagnosis, treatment, and living with Multiple Myeloma Cancer on a daily basis. This is the real, day-to-day feelings, emotions, and details of cancer, treatment, work, and people with whom I interact during the journey. We do it all- treatment, retirement, moving twice (once for 600 mile), and dealing with doctors, insurance people, and many other characters that enter my life.

This is the life of the patient, his family and friends as work, religion, and treatment interact. This is not about right and wrong, prevention, or anything so subjective. This is how I lived my life through the whole cancer ride.

January 12, 2005
I dream. As time goes on, my death plans will get more mundane and ordinary, and then switch to outlandish. I think of doing a cremation and memorial where we get a bunch of burnt charcoal dust, put it in plastic Baggies, and give it to all the attendees and tell them “He wanted you to have this.”

January 14, 2005
… I proceed to the next location down the hall for the urine test, which turns out to be a twenty-four hour test. Once it is determined that I need twenty-four hours to do a twenty-four hour test, and that I have not taken the test already because I don’t have a container full of urine, it’s decided by the office personnel that I needed a container (and twenty-four hours to fill it). All tests have their own office, their own lines, and their own people. There is also a slightly different procedure and decorum for each, sometimes well laid out, but most times not so well explained. X-ray patients talk; not so in radiation or blood work.

February 27, 2006
I asked Dr. Delmar if the transplant was successful and he answers, “Well, you didn’t die”. I like the guy...

Here's what some people say about the

"As a colon cancer survivor, I know that many of my most difficult moments were exacerbated by the fact I had no real knowledge of what was to take place -- all I knew was what I had been told by staff providing "doctored" information designed to help me cope with things like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Most importantly, my wife and I felt on our own in regard to my mood swings, profound moments of both anger and fear, and the need to cope with an ever changing cast of characters with different agendas in our lives. Living the cancer experience is not the same as hearing about it from the professionals. Had my wife and I read Mr. Paffrath's account of his experiences before my initial surgeries, his story would have awakened me to so many realities for which we were unprepared." - BH, cancer survivor.

“You will be inspired by this book, regardless of your physical, mental, or spiritual state, but not in the conventional sense, since the author is anything but conventional. This is not a how-to book since we all have to find our own way, bit it will provide some light anger, and laughs along the way. This is a ‘why’ book”.-JK, heart survivor.

It’ll knock your socks off. This is what literature should be, simultaneously enthralling and scary, vacillating between hope and panic and exposing the absurdity and fragility of human life. ... a stark and seductive autobiographical account about confronting Multiple Myeloma with a few expletives thrown in! Not to mention a smattering of wry humor.-Sc, artist.

It takes a rare talent to find and blend the humor in horror, hope in harsh reality, and appreciation of loving support of family and friends. Jim faces the mortal challenge while flicking his finger and laughing at the incongruity. RV-cancer survivor.

"Don't expect political correctness here. What you'll find instead is the authentic voice of a writer who came of age in Middle America in the 50s and the 60s and calls it as he sees it...I didn’t think cancer was funny but this is a good way to look at the stress of the disease.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: JP Publications
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1609440056
• ISBN 13: 9781609440053
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 215
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible