You've survived cancer treatment - now what? The Cancer Misfit is here to support you when doctors, friends and family have gone 'back to normal' and assumed you can do the same. It's a life raft to help you navigate life after cancer treatment; to help you live better, think better and feel better and show you how to embrace your new future. After the treatment stops it can be difficult to know how to move on, and many survivors feel stuck in limbo between who they used to be before the diagnosis and who they are today. This is how Saskia felt when she was told the treatment was over: she felt like a Cancer Misfit, recovered physically, but mentally and emotionally still healing. Now, Saskia shares the tools that enabled her to become the happiest version of herself she has ever known. In these pages, you'll find the truth - that your best life and most beautiful self was not the person you were before your cancer diagnosis, but the person you are today; that you've become even more powerful because of the hell you went through, and that the greatest chapter of your life is here and now. The Cancer Misfit will introduce you to the person you've become as a consequence of the trauma you endured and help you to embrace your new life after treatment; a life full of confidence, happiness and peace.

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Gaines is a self-described "bourbon-guzzling, pill-popping, penis-addicted, workaholic, tattooed Jew" with a Ph.D. and a pistol permit. "A Misfit's Manifesto" is about living with the contradictions. This is how she did it, and found God in all the unlikely places--like Ramones songs.

Beautifully illustrated Children's book about a 6 year old girl who lives on an Alpaca farm with an eye disease. She is gifted a white pony on her 6th birthday whom she names "Rupert" after her late grandfather whom she believes watches over her in Heaven. Rupert together with the family dogs, Border Collie Bella and Patch, a 12 year old Dalmatian, are the loves of Angel's life. Angel is teased and bullied in school as Rupert's clumsiness causes him to feel like an outcast, a "Misfit.". Until, feathers start growing on Rupert's body and the magic starts which touches the life of the whole family. A story encouraging children to Dream Big, to be proud of their differences, and to always BELIEVE in the power of love and faith.

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.

Karen Van de Water was a forty-seven-year-old healthy, nonsmoker with no family history of cancer when she learned she had lung cancer. A malignant tumor the size of a small hand grenade was lodged in her left lung. Suddenly, her life changed forever. She was pummeled physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. In The Cancer Card, Van de Water shares the story of her personal journey-from lung cancer diagnosis through surgery, chemotherapy, hair loss, and recovery. Inspiring, candid, and motivating, she offers helpful, clear, and concise tips, advice, and information for every step of the process for both the patient and the support team. Part memoir and part handbook, The Cancer Card includes a comprehensive listing of resources and terminology that equips the patient with crucial information and support service options. This easy-to-read book shares essential information for everyone faced with any form of cancer and all who love them.