"Perhaps I should have realized that cancer runs in my family. After all, three grandparents and my father and brother perished from this disease. Yet, when I received my colorectal cancer diagnosis, I was surprised. I never expected to be primarily identified as a cancer patient. Following a typical combination of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and more chemo, I was presumably cancer-free when my post-treatment scans looked clean. Nonetheless, within a year I received a terminal diagnosis; cancer had metastasized in my lungs. Thus began my year as a dead woman–a time of chaotic emotions, new priorities, and rapid-fire plans and changes. Expecting the unexpected became a theme in my life, but the things that turned out to be most shocking are social, familial, and even my expectations about what is realistic for a dead woman to be or do." Preconceptions about a terminal cancer diagnosis frequently are based on popular culture depictions of cancer and dying, which can be misleading as a guide for knowing what to expect when you’re expecting to die. This memoir provides one woman’s often-irreverent, pop culture-illustrated guide to life that deconstructs some common preconceptions about living with a terminal diagnosis.
Porter Lynnette Porter
Year in the Life of a "Dead" Woman [EPUB ebook]
Living with Terminal Cancer
Year in the Life of a "Dead" Woman [EPUB ebook]
Living with Terminal Cancer
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 185 ● ISBN 9781476638652 ● Maison d’édition McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ● Publié 2019 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7204655 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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