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Nowish - A Life Out of Time (Paperback)
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Nowish - A Life Out of Time (Paperback)
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Loot Price R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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Two hundred and sixty thousand women in America have breast cancer.
Another one million have it, but don't know it yet. Every woman's
story is unique. Alice Mead was a vibrant art teacher, mom and
human rights activist. At 42 she began to drop things, walk slowly,
and fall down. The odds were one in a million that it was an
autoimmune reaction, caused by a tumor. The doctors ignored her
symptoms for 8 years. The invasive lobular cancer didn't show up on
X-Rays, CT scans, or MRI's. Not wanting to be a caretaker, her
husband became emotionally abusive and left. Her mother died from
Alzheimer's while Alice was in the middle of radiation treatments.
She lost her home, insurance, and family all at once. After chemo,
she began to stabilize, but suddenly the neurological problems came
back ten times worse. Violent spasms, suffocating episodes, broken
bones. She found herself in an Assisted Living center at 54 and
spent the next few years deteriorating, lonely, and struggling to
find alternative housing. In 2009, just six years after breast
cancer surgery, her voice and vision started rapidly deteriorating.
How had her life come to this? Finally doctors are more openly
expressing the life-long continuation of breast cancer and its
possible destructive effects on women and their families. Alice
reflects poignantly on her experience with the fractured medical
system, increasing isolation, and the kindness of the friends who
are seeing her through.
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