Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196699400922
EAN num: 9780767921381
ISBN number: 0767921380
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: September 27, 2005
Publishing house: Broadway
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Sale Popularity Level: 154003
Studio: Broadway
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Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONG™ wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day.
Now, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has compiled, from hours of videotaped interviews, poignant and dramatic personal accounts from cancer survivors. Covering a wide range of subjects, from grief to spousal relationships, employment discrimination to coping with medical bills, infertility to fear of recurrence, survivors share their experiences and speak candidly about how cancer has impacted their lives. For twenty-four-year-old Amy it’s how her illness changed her relationship with her parents. Mike, a male survivor of breast cancer, talks about gender stereotypes and genetic testing. And Eric, the father of a five-year-old survivor of a brain tumor, recalls how friends and strangers helped his family with financial issues and how the experience brought him and his wife closer together.
While heartbreaking at times, these powerfully honest stories are ultimately uplifting and extremely reassuring to patients and their families. They offer the wisdom and hope that only survivors can give. LiveStrong is a remarkable testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
From the introduction by Lance Armstrong:
My work with the LAF shows me daily that sharing our stories and learning from one another’s experiences helps us cancer survivors continue to survive. Some people think the cancer experience is only about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as if after the disease goes into remission, it no longer exists. But survivorship goes beyond remission. Survivorship is an evolution.
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Being a recent cancer victim/survivor myself, I found this to be inspiring and is helping to reaffirm that I'm not alone out there and that there's nothing wrong with me. It just happened, for whatever reason. Livestrong is a must read for anyone who either has or knows someone who has cancer ... it'll help you get through the bumps along the road.
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Live Strong: Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors - From Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond by the Lance Armstrong Foundation is a powerful new book that is a must read for anyone - whether they have been impacted by cancer or not.
The book is a collection of stories told by twenty-six people on a terrifying roller coaster that is out of control ... they have been diagnosed with serious life-changing cancer. But they all have hope and they all develop the inner strength to continue their lives with the drastic changes that cancer forces upon them.
The people are unforgettable ...
- the college senior who found out in her last semester ... just when she was ready to start a wonderful and exciting life journey - now bravely struggling with feelings of isolation while working to raise money for other cancer survivors.
- the cancer doctor who got cancer himself, played with his kids, wound up with a divorce, and eventually returned to work with a new understanding of what his patients are experiencing.
- the twenty-four year old woman whose basketball career ended when she was diagnosed in eighth grade.
- the teenage boy who struggled through a cancer-filled `coming of age' period unlike any other but who has now found some peace and even has a girlfriend.
- the Asian woman who became distraught because she knew something was wrong inside - and who eventually had to force her doctors to figure out that she had cancer.
- the father of four who became a cancer survivor when his five year old son was diagnosed then became blind and now is learning Braille.
- the forty-five year old woman who calmly, almost light-heartedly wonders if she will expire before her credit card does.
The stories are remarkable, told simply in the words of real people, not professional authors. The book is certainly a monument to hope and optimism and living strong.
But there is something deeper about this book, both more disturbing and more profound, that I can not quite put my finger on. Perhaps it is because I am reading Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinary journey with her during her year-long reaction to her husband's sudden death. It is becoming clearer to me that the survivors in Live Strong are really describing the heart-wrenching emotional grieving process that they struggled through. Someone has died and it is them - the other life, without cancer, that they will never have. And there is such difficulty in letting go.
Read this book. It is much deeper than inspiration. By David Roddy, Cancer Survivor and Author of North Pond Dawn.
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I was drawn to the book when I saw the familiar orange LIVE STRONG wristband. Upon reading, I was relieved to realize that this book is one full of hope, not despair, sadness and pain. These are the stories of real people who have had or do have real cancer. The book is invaluable because it comes from those people who know what having cancer feels like. These aren't the words of doctors or nurses or other health care professionals. These are the words from people who know.
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