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This  memoir  is both hilarious and touching.  It is the story of the author's roller coaster life interrupted by cancer. It is a readable, uplifting and humorous memoir that will brighten your day. Through a series of vignettes that are certain to inform  and entertain in an easy to absorb conversational tome, we follow the author from her life before cancer through diagnosis, treatment and recovery.  As a wife, mother and attorney, Cathy's life is spinning our of control when she is in the midst of a move from the Bay Area to her dream home in Lake Tahoe.As the movers are packing up the furniture, the Women's Center calls and asks her to come back in for further testing following her mammogram from the day before.  Certain that the mammogram showed a false positive and that the follow up is a routine annoyance, she insists that they do the follow up right away, announcing that she won't come back for this nonsense after the move. the Women's Center agrees and after a couple of hours of testing, she is told she has breast cancer. 

A perfect  gift  for  someone  just  diagnosed  with  breast  cancer as  it  gives  the  details  of  what  it  is  like  to  be  a  cancer  patient., discusses  the  resources  and  information  available  to  cancer  patients  and  most  importantly,  should  make  you  smile  or  laugh  out  loud  when  you  least  feel  like  it.  The  book  is  equally  essential  to  anyone  attempting  to  understand  cancer  from  the  patient’s  perspective,  whether  a  relative  or  friend  of  a  cancer  patient  or  a  medical  professional.  It  is  written  with  humor  and  attitude,  as  I  have  lived  my  life.

Cynthia Hayes author and blogger of The Big Ordeal has interviewed dozens of cancer patients about their story. Click the attached link for her blog about my story.  https://wp.me/saobsn-cathy