Cancer is complicated And other unexpected lessons I've learned
Large print - 2025
"In 2022, Clea Shearer thought: This is going to be the best year of my life. The Home Edit, the company she had cofounded and worked so hard to grow, was acquired by Hello Sunshine. She had just finished filming the second season of her Emmy-nominated show Get Organized with The Home Edit. She turned forty surrounded by candles, flowers, friends, and family. And then, on March 8, 2022, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her life as she knew it was over. But life is full of nuances. As the months went by, Clea started to feel like she had been given an opportunity. What if she could share everything she experienced and learned throughout this process, so it would be a little less frightening for someone else? Cancer Is Complicated i...s the book that Clea wishes she'd had when she started on her cancer journey. It is a memoir and a guidebook, blending Clea's experiences and all the wisdom and advice she's gathered through this process. The book follows Clea through every step of her journey, from the moment she first felt a lump in her breast, through treatment, to where she is today. Clea also offers insights on questions big and small-from how to be your own biggest advocate, to knowing whom in your circle to share your diagnosis with, to understanding the emotional side of cancer, to what to bring with you to chemo, to things to eat when nothing else tastes good, and so much more."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiography
large type books
Autobiographies
Large type books
Livres en gros caractères - Published
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Thorndike, Maine :
Center Point Large Print
2025.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition
- Item Description
- Regular print version previously published by: The Open Field, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group.
- Physical Description
- 263 pages (large print) : illustration ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9798891646797
- Everyone says it's a journey but no one says where you're going
- Cancer doesn't care if you're busy
- The realization
- What's going on?
- The Biopsy
- Who do I tell?
- The Diagnosis
- Paris
- And so it begins
- Complications
- The red devil
- Preparations
- Here comes chemo
- Taking back control
- "Mommy, you're beautiful"
- Routine, reclusion, reflection
- The last round
- It's not over, is it?
- Up all night
- Ringing the bell
- The rundown on radiation
- My first treatment
- Nights at the radiation basement
- "Meet me at midnight"
- The nameless sorrow
- New year, new drugs
- What and who helped, what and who didn't
- Reconstruction
- What comes next
- Okay, a few more things.