1 Cancer Patient: A unique photo journal to guide difficult cancer conversations [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

This book is required reading in the Master of Arts in Counseling: Art Therapy and the PhD in Art Therapy Departments at Adler University Chicago campus. Becoming the subject of a photographic series about breast cancer has been one of the scariest and most meaningful decisions I’ve ever made. These images are meant to alleviate fear of the unknown and to bring a sense of calm to anyone facing their own battle. 1 Cancer Patient visually chronicles many aspects of a person’s fight with this disease. Personal and intimate moments, frozen in time, reveal that strength, beauty, and humor are still possible even amidst surgeries, hair loss, chemotherapy treatments, and normally mundane struggles of everyday life. This book is intended to unmask the unknown that comes with a cancer diagnosis and show that a good (though altered) life is possible. Let this book be your guide; fold pages, write notes, show the images to your doctors and ask them to compare it to the journey you’re about to embark on. There is a normalcy intertwined with the chaotic stress involved in being a cancer patient. All cancers are different, and I can only speak to what I’ve gleaned personally from my experiences. Much of what I’ve learned is universal among cancer patients. Each time my life was turned upside down with another diagnosis, I was given the gift of a new opportunity to expose and explain more about a battle with cancer. Read more