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Summary: Good Book
Review: I found the book to be very detailed about little things that some books might not think important. As a breast cancer patient, I found helpful advice to give me advance warning about many things that might have been troubling. It was written with humor and a personable style that made it enjoyable.
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Summary: ...and bouncing back.
Review: I read this book in two days. For anyone facing cancer, it is full of loving words and good advice. For anyone supporting someone facing cancer, this book helps understand what the patient is going through emotionally, and physically, and what is needed most to help. For everyone, this is a story of how family, friends, and strangers come together to face a crisis.Barbara is totally frank in her discussion of what she went through physically and emotionally, and her struggle to determine what medical care was/is best for her. She shares the wonderful e-mails she sent and received from a support group that stretched across many countries. Many of the episodes detailed are frustrating, some are sad, some are outright funny. What struck me as I read was the importance of support -- both emotional and practical -- from Barbara's friends (not only to her recovery but also just to the logistics of getting through many days), and the necessity to maintain some perspective and a sense of humor, or at least irony. I strongly recommend this book to everyone; though we don't all face breast cancer or other personally life-threatening diseases, Barbara's strength and determination are an inspiration to those confronting many types of challenges.
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Summary: Hitting the Wall Hits Home
Review: Strong,successful women are people too! Barbara Pate Glacel delivers this message with refreshing candor in her book, Hitting the Wall: Memoir of A Cancer Journey. Her feelings of anger, frustration, isolation, and loss of self-determination as she confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer are described in a manner that touches the reader at both the emotional and intellectual level. Barbara helps the reader to understand and empathize with the challenges any patient diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness faces and confronts every day. Her humor and caring for her family, friends, and acquaintances shines throughout her personal story. Surviving is more than perservering and enduring what life puts in one's path. It is also confronting one's fears and anxieties in order to overcome and defeat them. Barbara provides us with an action plan on how to achieve victory. I plan on making this book part of any support and comfort I might give to those entering the battle against a life-threatening disease such as breast cancer.
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Summary: Hitting the Wall Hits Home
Review: Strong,successful women are people too! Barbara Pate Glacel delivers this message with refreshing candor in her book, Hitting the Wall: Memoir of A Cancer Journey. Her feelings of anger, frustration, isolation, and loss of self-determination as she confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer are described in a manner that touches the reader at both the emotional and intellectual level. Barbara helps the reader to understand and empathize with the challenges any patient diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness faces and confronts every day. Her humor and caring for her family, friends, and acquaintances shines throughout her personal story. Surviving is more than perservering and enduring what life puts in one's path. It is also confronting one's fears and anxieties in order to overcome and defeat them. Barbara provides us with an action plan on how to achieve victory. I plan on making this book part of any support and comfort I might give to those entering the battle against a life-threatening disease such as breast cancer.
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Summary: An Easy to Read Book with excellent references
Review: The author fights back at the fear and encourages her readers to do the same by supplying easily accessed references and providing an email network. The books reads easy and lets the reader share in the author's struggle and ultimate triumph as Barbara Glacel aggressively takes the helm of her own ship and sails through the dark waters of an all too-common disease. Humor adds the light touch to offset the seriousness and makes the pages turn fast.
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