Greetings from Cancerland

Greetings from Cancerland
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 1475909888
ISBN-13 : 9781475909883
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Book Synopsis Greetings from Cancerland by : Alysa Cummings

Download or read book Greetings from Cancerland written by Alysa Cummings and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after Alysa Cummings was diagnosed with breast cancer, she sat down at her laptop computer and began keeping a journal. Over the two years of her cancer treatment, Alysa continued writing as she moved through the healthcare delivery system: I fantasized that I could somehow use my computer to craft a story with an upbeat next chapter or fairy tale happily-ever-after ending. Looking back, thats the only explanation I can come up with, why I felt so compelled to create a record of my day-to-day experiences as a cancer patient. The one thing I could control were these words that crowded each other as they quickly appeared on my computer screen; these stories that flowed through my fingertips in such a manic rush; these traumatic adventures that happened to me in a place I began to call CancerLand. CancerLand: its this parallel universe, I swear, separate and apart from the rest of life as I once knew it. How did I end up in this wacky Bizarro World filled with freaky language and even stranger rituals? Gradually her daily journal entries became vignettes and poems that were published on the OncoLink website. Greetings from CancerLand, a collection of Alysas writing from 2002-2012, charts one breast cancer survivors journey as she discovers the power of writing to move her recovery forward.


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