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In this moving memoir, Davies shares the 302-day journal she kept through her diagnosis, surgeries, and healing from breast cancer. Davies shares details of her journey as she struggles to make treatment decisions, contain the worry, and confront the changes to her body. Her pathway through all of this is fraught with tears and anguish, but her reliance on family, friends, and faith keeps her focused on healing and recovery. By recording her daily thoughts and experiences at doctor appointments, she conveys the realities of a cancer diagnosis and the aftermath, which is full of challenges, questions, and fears. This real-time record of her thoughts and feelings about the cancer diagnosis and treatment serves as a reliable first-person account that can help others going through a medical crisis. Davies offers comfort and wisdom as she leans on scripture, poetry, and support groups to help her through each day of her ordeal.
This journal is rich with honesty that will captivate readers with its insight and wisdom about confronting illness. Davies provides an authentic look into the day-to-day feelings of cancer’s impact on her, and she chronicles the medical maze of appointments, advice, and treatment options. Davies faces all of it with calm resolve and imparts the lessons she learned from which readers will benefit. Her insight gained through experience can be a comfort to anyone dealing with personal tragedy and life-changing trauma. This is a memoir that offers a perspective filled with vulnerability and hope as it illuminates the unpredictability of life and the fragility of our bodies but also the strength of our wills to endure and overcome. When people choose to share their experiences with such candor as Davies has, others can find solace and connection as they confront their own challenges.
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