Hope Is Contagious: The Breast Cancer Treatment Survival Handbook

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	Hope Is Contagious: The Breast Cancer Treatment Survival Handbook
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When Margit Esser Porter was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 34, the advice of a Colorado river guide floated to mind: "Take an active participation in your own survival." Drawing on the experiences of others who survived the anxious days and months that follow a positive lab report, Esser offers up their words of faith, hope, rage, fear, and counsel. One woman was told by a well-meaning male friend that breast cancer was the best kind of cancer to get. "I should have replied that prostate cancer was the best kind for a woman to get, but I was too blown away to respond," she says. Another woman, dealing with chemotherapy, wryly notes: "Everyone tells me to try to keep a positive attitude. Is that supposed to help me or them? I'm taking poison! Let's reality test, please!" Many suggestions--some obvious, others inventive--and a good assortment of resources round out the book.