Lessons Learned from Cancer: A Poignant And Sometimes Irreverent Look at Life's Lessons Learned - Softcover

Every year hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer. Lessons Learned from Cancer is the ideal book for people with cancer - whether they are currently in treatment or have survived it. For those who aren't sure what to say when a loved one is diagnosed, Lessons Learned from Cancer is the perfect get well gift, offering advice, humor and inspiration. Pregnant and diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, cancer rocked my world. Ten years later I have survived. I have a healthy daughter and I have passed the momentous cure time.I've learned important lessons from having cancer. Life is too short. Also, I don't have to be perfect. I've learned to let things go, and that most things are not worth the stress we add to them.Lessons Learned from Cancer tells of the lessons I've learned from having cancer. The most important lesson was that having cancer is not a death sentence. I was lucky. I had friends and acquaintances that had been down the same road before, and eased my way. Lessons Learned from Cancer will ease the road taken with cancer. It offers the reader advice and hope and so much more.

Marti Ann Schwartz's first book, LISTEN TO ME, DOCTOR, brought her tremendous media attention, including articles in USA Today and Good Housekeeping. Appearances on television include CBS Evening News and NBC News. Ms. Schwartz was five months pregnant with her first child when she was diagnosed with cancer. She has now been cancer free for over ten years. Her daughter is a healthy seventh grader.Ms. Schwartz has put her consumer skills to good use in the healthcare arena. Doctors and healthcare providers, although not sure it was a good idea, soon accepted Ms. Schwartz's way of doing things. Ms. Schwartz lives in Valencia, California, with her husband and daughter.Contact Marti Ann Schwartz at her website: www.tcconsumer.com