What Doesn't Kill You ...
The Highs, Lows and Unexpected Gifts of Surviving Cancer
by Rachel Bown
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Pub Date Mar 10 2020 | Archive Date Mar 03 2020
Watkins | Watkins Publishing
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Description
Being diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer while bringing up two growing children, holding down a full time job, going through a break-up and having three days to adjust to a life-changing operation is far from ideal. Add to this a short period of remission, a new relationship, followed by an unexpected relapse and the whole thing starting again, and you know you are going to be in for an interesting read.
Bowel cancer, despite being the UK’s second biggest cancer killer still receives a shockingly low level of funding. This book aims in to help this, but to also tell Rachel's unique story of survival. Her experience presents a wake-up call to what’s important in life and the truth about surviving against the odds.
This book is a funny and enlightening story about physical survival and then the messy psychological legacy of unexpected survival. Of wake-up calls that failed and an overwhelming urge to finally make sense of a life that Rachel was not expected to see.
What lies beneath survival is the realisation that the end of treatment is not the end of the story.
What doesn’t kill you ...
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781786783554 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Joanna P, Reviewer
Rachel Haynes was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer - her prognosis was poor. Yet here she is and writing an uplifting and often humorous account of her diagnosis and treatment, but also how she learns to live as a survivor.
In some ways I found this second section more interesting: it’s perhaps something we don’t think about. How do you live when you essentially return to normal life but you are far from the same person you were?
Haynes remains positive despite her horrible experiences and she also tells us about some of the ways she has changed her life post-cancer, from religion to therapies.
An honest and moving account that tracks Haynes’ experience through cancer and five years beyond. Recommended.
Kelly M, Media/Journalist
An inspiring, emotional and thought provoking read, that looks at what happens when you survive cancer and how do survivors move on from treatment to living their lives, and the lasting affects it has on them.
Richelle W, Reviewer
I found this book to be heartwarming and inspirational. This is a very candid and personal story of triumph and survival. This book is sometimes humorous and often just an accounting of her dogged deterioration to survive and reclaim her life. This story spans her diagnosis treatment and five (5) years beyond.
Cancer can be such a scary diagnosis leaving on feeling like you are on your last leg of life's journey but the author faced her diagnosis and treatment by facing it bravely while trying to give her family hope. She candidly talks about everything involved with her diagnosis treatment and readjustment back to what she would call a normal but completely different life.
This is a fantastic book for anyone wishing to be inspired by a woman's journey to conquer her fears and move forward with grace during her diagnosis of a terminal illness. This was a fantastic read and I really enjoyed it.
I received this book from NetGalley and Watkins Publishing for an honest review.
Cen R, Reviewer
Raw, honest, inspirational, strong, real, those are just a few words that I describe this book. Rachel is diagnosed with Stage 4 bowel cancer. She takes you on her journey where she’s taken to hell and back.
As I was reading this I felt it was both an honour and a privilege to be taken on Rachel’s journey.
Beautifully written and excellently executed.
Thank you to both NetGalley and publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review
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