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Beauty without the breast /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard Global Equity Initiative,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1 Doubting
- Chapter 1 Could it be ...? 3
- Mammogram at 40 3
- The mammogram and the precipice 6
- What is a BI-RADS? 12
- I am not overreacting 16
- Tell me I am overreacting! 21
- Next steps; first decision 24
- Chapter 2 Pause to enjoy the world of the healthy 27
- The wait 27
- Disneyland ... To go or not to go 32
- Though it sounds childish: The magic of Disney 38
- Part 2 Knowing
- Chapter 3 It is 43
- The biopsy: Now I know 43
- Lunch in Tlalpan 49
- One afternoon to get my life in order 53
- Hannah's question 57
- Chapter 4 Meeting my altered-self 61
- Becoming a patient 61
- The first surgery 67
- The first night 70
- My mother 75
- Next steps amid tribulations 78
- Celebrate life as if you were healthy 84
- Decisions, round one 88
- Part 3 Accepting
- Chapter 5 Tómatelo a Pecho 95
- The birth of an idea 95
- Juanita 106
- Chapter 6 A tempest of decisions 109
- Facing my fear 109
- The friendly tumor board 111
- I am cancerous 116
- My first, second opinion 120
- Alone, for the first time 123
- Chapter 7 In search of answers 129
- The trip to Seattle 129
- A cancer hospital with a view of the bay 132
- Some answers and more questions 134
- Navigating the labyrinth 140
- Chapter 8 Time with friends 143
- Decisions 143
- Cushions 145
- Moving forward 147
- Chapter 9 To mastectomize or not to mastectomize? 151
- Confusion 151
- My first MRI 154
- Results and progress 157
- A gift to myself: painting with hospitalized children 160
- The second trip to Seattle 166
- Radiation or mastectomy 168
- I finally cry 170
- Part 4 Embarking
- Chapter 10 A farewell to health 175
- Bridging the worlds of the healthy and the sick 175
- Sky, sand, sea, and moon 176
- The rock of singing seals 178
- Mastectomy is right for me 179
- Inner peace 183
- Chapter 11 The mastectomy 187
- The surgery will be in Mexico 187
- Presenting Tómatelo a Pecho 188
- The mastectomy 190
- I can do this 194
- Chapter 12 Facing Chemotherapy 199
- Concentration camps and chemotherapy 199
- Becoming a patient 202
- With Maha's help 208
- Chapter 13 Preparing for chemotherapy 211
- The wig business 211
- Looking in the mirror 217
- Breast 'inflation' 219
- Acapulco 220
- Chapter 14 The first dose: FEC #1 225
- The haircut 225
- The day before 228
- The day finally arrives 233
- Chemotherapy begins 238
- Unveiling the wigs 243
- Part 5 Learning
- Chapter 15 I lose my hair and rediscover myself 251
- The loss begins 251
- I decide to live life 253
- Helping Maha to assimilate loss 257
- Hair just keeps falling 259
- With Hannah, I manage to end the endless hair loss 261
- I develop a new identity 263
- Chapter 16 Life with chemotherapy 269
- Coping strategies 269
- Healing myself through exercise 272
- Taking heart: opportunities to enjoy life 274
- Finding inspiration 275
- Chapter 17 Expectations mold perceptions 283
- My last dose of chemotherapy 283
- Venturing back 284
- Sepsis 287
- Part 6 Surviving, living, and giving
- Chapter 18 Entering survivorship 297
- Why survivorship 297
- Life post-chemotherapy 302
- Chapter 19 Living survivorship 311
- Some surprising improvements 314
- Breast reconstruction ... an ongoing dilemma 320
- Sexual non-health 328
- Ongoing challenges 334
- Living with the fear of recurrence 340
- Chapter 20 The many forms of prayer 345
- I was blessed with many prayers 345
- Giving back is a way of healing 349.