An Inconvenient Year by Yvonne Joye

Puffin2014
Puffin2014 Member Posts: 531 Member
in Breast Cancer #1

Just learned of the book "An Inconvenient Year" by Yvonne Joye about a woman's battle with breast cancer. It's available on Amazon as a free Kindle download. I've downloaded it, just started reading it.

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  • GlowMore
    GlowMore Member Posts: 789 Member
    #2
    Sounds Interesting

    Sounds like a good read....please be sure to give us a Book Review  :)  

    One book that I read years ago was "The Immune Spirit" by Susan Ryan Jordan........(Meg Ryan's Mother)....and it was very good and one thing I remember was how she spoke about Depression bringing on Disease...and I related to it because I had been Widowed at 61 and was so very unhappy for years before my BC Diagnosis.  One wonderful thing about finding a good book is how it can take you out of yourself and give you a time of Peace. 

  • Puffin2014
    Puffin2014 Member Posts: 531 Member
    #3
    finished the book

    I give the book a thumbs up. She's very honest and open about what she went through, the problems that came up and how she dealt with them, what the health care team could have done differently that would have helped. I found it interesting that she was a participant in a clinical trial related to the oncotype testing, trying to make the grey middle area of scoring more precise. Book was published in 2010, don't know what that trial determined. Also was interesting that I was having my final chemo #4 the same time I was reading about her having her final #4. Now I'm hoping my radiation goes as well as hers did.

  • GlowMore
    GlowMore Member Posts: 789 Member
    #4
    Puffin2014 said:

    finished the book

    I give the book a thumbs up. She's very honest and open about what she went through, the problems that came up and how she dealt with them, what the health care team could have done differently that would have helped. I found it interesting that she was a participant in a clinical trial related to the oncotype testing, trying to make the grey middle area of scoring more precise. Book was published in 2010, don't know what that trial determined. Also was interesting that I was having my final chemo #4 the same time I was reading about her having her final #4. Now I'm hoping my radiation goes as well as hers did.

    Me Too

    So do I hope all goes well for you Puffin.......I found the Radiation to be a Snap after the Chemo...but it did make me very exhausted for about a year afterward.  Perhaps also the exhaustion just naturally comes because of the trauma to our bodies and our hearts and minds.  I did not like the prep work they had to do on me for the Radiation (...when you lay there and they draw lines all over you...)  felt sort of like a piece of meat and not too human that day....and do remember that the first day of Radiation I sort of had a Melt Down at the end of the being Zapped...and they took me into the Head Doc's office and he talked to me for about 30 minutes and explained to me that he was just about the Best Total Expert that ever lived...what with his Ph.D. and everything...oh and the many books he had published on the subject.  LOL LOL   I do believe that his Ego that day helped me greatly to put it back into perspective.     Hugs,  Glo

     

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