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Holding Tight, Letting Go: Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19699449
EAN: 9781565922549
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1565922549
Label: Patient Center Guides
Manufacturer: Patient Center Guides
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 510
Publication Date: 1997-09
Publisher: Patient Center Guides
Studio: Patient Center Guides
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This is a book about life: the daily lives of ordinary people confronting a deadly disease.
Holding Tight, Letting Go offers the stories of 40 women and men as they struggle to come to terms with metastatic breast cancer. All aspects of dealing with the disease are covered here: from coping with the shock of recurrence and seeking information, to making treatment decisions, investigating alternative and complementary methods, and communicating effectively with medical personnel. Finding sources of emotional support from other patients and friends and dealing with relationship and family issues are often as important as managing the side effects of treatment and the pain and symptoms of disease progression.
Frank and moving descriptions from those who have been there make their stories meaningful to anyone who faces a life-threatening illness, whether they are talking about making end of life decisions, or keeping hope alive through spiritual connections, or seeking loving and compassionate care and the search for meaning in the midst of adversity.
Women with breast cancer live in fear of recurrence. For a third to a half of those diagnosed, the disease will eventually spread. When this happens, most people assume it means an immediate and grim death sentence. The eloquent voices in Holding Tight, Letting Go speak of a different reality: that women with metastatic breast cancer generally go on to live with their disease, often for many years, and that through facing this reality, and gathering information and support, the time that they have can be full and meaningful.
Of the dozens of books and other resources dealing with breast cancer, few discuss the realities of metastatic disease. Holding Tight, Letting Go gives a voice to the side of breast cancer no one wants to hear about, with stories of extraordinary ordinary people, forced by circumstance to call on resources in themselves and their families they never knew they possessed.
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Rating: - helpful and realistic
A personalized and at the same time highly informed guide to life with breast cancer. A subsample of highly articulate Breast Cancer Discussion List participants, who agreed to be interviewed by Mayer, are repeatedly quoted throughout, as Mayer invokes their voices and occasionally her own, to put the realities of life with cancer into an experiential context, then place these experiences into the appropriate wider context of medical expertise or psychotherapeutic wisdom. Topics covered: the shock ... Read More
Rating: - Musa has written the book I needed to find 5 years ago.
When I was first diagnosed with metastatic cancer, nearly five years ago, my most difficult adjustment was facing the reality of my situation. Publications I desperately needed to read hadn't yet been written. Musa Mayer has written the book I needed to find five years ago. As a contributor, I wanted to cross over the ocean of suffering and connect to life. As the author, Musa has taken the larger step of daring to look beyond her own fears, to the reality of lives with metastatic breast cancer. She ... Read More
Rating: - This is a "must" for anyone with a potentially fatal disease
Ms. Mayer has used her own wisdom and the voices of people who have metastatic breast cancer as well as of their family, friends, significant others and breast cancer activists to explore the difficulties and possibilities of life with a potentially terminal disease. The book is inspirational, profound and practical. If you are human, you are likely to die of a terminal disease and you will find this book helpful in charting your course and making your journey through such an experience as positive as ... Read More
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