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, that's 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: it's 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 Alysa's writing from 2002-2012, charts
one breast cancer survivor's journey as she discovers the power of
writing to move her recovery forward.
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