Why
we chose this book
Tragically and yet almost matter-of-factly, it seems every woman
has her own relationship with breast cancer these days. My Nana died of
breast cancer when I was 18, but was diagnosed before I was even born.
My mother-in-law is part of a new generation of survivors. One with a
strong support network and sisterhood.
This is a
wonderful, informative and inspiring guide. We're looking forward to the
day when no woman needs to read it. ~Beth
From
Amazon
Uplift is an
inspiring collection of voices of breast cancer survivors. Barbara
Delinsky, author of "The Woman Next Door" and other novels, and
herself a survivor of breast cancer, presents inspirational snippets from
more than 300 women sharing breast cancer tips and experiences. Reading
this book is like listening to the friendly hubbub of a crowd of women all
offering advice and comments. They share practical tips about comfortable
clothing after mastectomy, treatments for radiation burns, nausea
remedies, wigs, advice for friends, and more.
Delinsky
envisioned this book as "the support group that I had never joined
but could have used, the one that offered all the practical little secrets
of survival that have nothing to do with doctors, machines, or drugs and
everything to do with women helping women." She succeeds. (Delinsky
is donating all her earnings on this book to breast cancer research.)
From the Publisher
Delinsky (A Woman's Place), a prolific popular novelist, lost her
mother to breast cancer and is herself a survivor of the disease. This
practical guide is a worthy addition to recent literature about how
individual women deal with this illness. Delinsky has collected a
compendium of survival secrets "that have nothing to do with
doctors, machines or drugs and everything to do with women helping
women" that she wished had been available to her when she was
diagnosed in 1994. She offers short personal anecdotes contributed by
breast cancer survivors of every age and background. They recount the
strategies that helped them through all aspects of cancer, including
diagnosis, treatment, support groups and how to best conduct
relationships with family, friends and in the workplace. Upbeat in tone,
the women share such tips as the types of deodorants that may be used
during radiation, how to handle hair loss ("I called my hair
dresser and had the remainder of my hair buzzed off.... My buzzed head
represented strength and control"), what foods will lessen nausea
and, in general, how to take charge of one's life and remain positive.
Almost everyone will find something in this varied advice that applies
to her particular situation.
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