Dont Die of Embarrassment or Cancer Recovery Guide

Don't Die of Embarrassment: Life after Colostomy and Other Adventures

Author: Barbara Barri

A remarkably candid and informative first-person account of surviving colon cancer and living after a colostomy. A helpful guide for anyone facing this life-altering surgery.

Every year 70,000 people in the United States and Canada undergo colostomies. In 1994, Barbara Barrie became one of them. When the successful actress received the diagnosis of colorectal cancer, she knew that this was the greatest crisis she and her family would face. But it also became an adventure that, through courage and humor, brought new joys and a greater appreciation to her life.

More than just a memoir, Don't Die of Embarrassment provides valuable information about the ostomy experience. She gives essential information about the occurrence of colon cancer, its symptoms, and treatment options. A valuable guide for people learning to adjust to an altered lifestyle after surgery.

Includes a new afterword, written by Dr. Otis W. Brawley.

Table of Contents:

Contents

1. New Beginnings

2. London

3. Charleston

4. Back to the Hotel

5. Hospital Charleston

6. Last Day of Shooting

7. First Visit to Dr. Eng

8. Second Visit to Dr. Eng

9. The Gottliebs

10. The CAT Scan

11. Should We Tell the Children?

12. Phone Call to Kids

13. First Night, Hospital

14. The ICU

15. First Operation

16. Terry Haus

17. Maggie

18. Home from the Hospital

19. Phone Call from Jim

20. The Call to Caroline

21. A Kelly Checkup

22. Radiation-Chemo

23. The Lady on the Bus

24. Radiation

25. Irrigation Failure, Saltaire

26. After-Play, I

27. Back to the Drawing Board

28. The Hernia Repair

29. An Episode for Television

30. Seeking Answers

31. Dr. Jackson

32. After-Play Rehearsals

33. Dr. Eng Revisited

34. Before the Third Operation

35. After the Third Try

36. Irrigation

37. After-Play, Second Production

38. Lunch with Dr. Mears

39. Santa Barbara

Afterword by Otis W. Brawley, M.D.

Sources

Index

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Cancer Recovery Guide: 15 Alternative and Complementary Strategies for Restoring Health

Author: Jonathan Chamberlain

In Europe and the USA we have a 40-50% chance of getting cancer at some time in our lives. So what do you do if you are diagnosed with the disease? The harshness of orthodox treatments (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy) are wellknown. Their use is widespread, but their results are not impressive. Faced with these options, informed patients are increasingly seeking out alternative or complementary strategies to take control of their own healing. This book provides an overview of them.

Jonathan Chamberlain watched his wife suffer and eventually die - both from her cancer and from the direct effects of the orthodox treatments she had undergone. This experience led him on a journey in search of other methods of overcoming cancer. What he discovered stunned him. There are cures out there - dozens of them - many offering very good chances of recovery.

In Cancer Recovery Guide Chamberlain presents 15 simple, practical strategies for becoming well again. These strategies are grouped in three families: those relating to the mind and the emotions (did you know stress makes cancers more aggressive?); those relating to the health of the whole body (cancer cannot survive in a tissue environment that is truly healthy); and those that focus on directly attacking the cancer tumours. The personal stories cited throughout the book testify to the curative possibilities of the strategies presented.