Mary Potter Kenyon

Chemo-Therapist (eBook, ePUB)

How Cancer Cured a Marriage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Brings transparency, honesty, humor, and hope to spouses and family members caring for loved ones with cancer ... a must-read." -Shelly Beach, Christy Award-winning author of Ambushed By Grace: Help & Hope on the Caregiving Journey Initially, after David's diagnosis, I would cringe when I read books or articles by cancer survivors who stated that cancer had been a gift in their lives. How could all that David endured be viewed as a gift? The invasive surgery, the weeks of chemotherapy and radiation: a gift? Yet, after the cancer, David would often reach for my hand and say, "If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, then it was all worth it." And I'd reluctantly agree that cancer had been a gift in our lives. We'd both seen the other alternative: patients and survivors who had become bitter and angry, and neither one of us wanted to become that. After Mary Potter Kenyon's husband, David,was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2006, she would serve as his companion during Wednesday chemotherapy treatments, Mary began journaling about their experience as a couple and parents of young children as they navigated the labyrinth of cancer. It soon dawned on her that between working and raising a large family, the two had somehow lost touch with each other over the years-and that things were about to change. Chemo-Therapist: How Cancer Cured a Marriageis a moving and inspiring testimonial of a relationship renewed by the shared experience of a life-threatening illness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Familius
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781938301667
• Artikelnr.: 56682799

Autorenporträt

Mary Potter Kenyon works as Program Coordinator for Shalom Spirituality Center and is a public speaker, a workshop presenter, and a writing instructor. Mary is the author of five previous Familius titles, including the award-winning Refined by Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace, and is widely published in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, including ten Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Dr. Susanna Gordon, radiation oncologist, Diplomat, The
American Board of Radiology, trained at the University of California, Los
Angeles School of Medicine (UCLA).
 
Chapter 1:  Is This All There Is?
Chapter 2:  The Diagnosis
Chapter 3:  Treatment Begins
Chapter 4: Where Is My Daddy?
Chapter 5:  What Happens Now?
Chapter 6:  Bringing Daddy Home
Chapter 7:  Not Tonight, Honey, I’ve Got Cancer
Chapter 8:  Let the Trials Begin!
Chapter 9: Fatigue is Our Friend
Chapter 10: We Get By, With a Little Help From Our Friends
Chapter 11: Make It Mean Something
Chapter 12: Life After Cancer
Chapter 13: The Sound of the Other Shoe Dropping
Epilogue
Appendix A: Suggested Resources