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100	1		_aKenyon, Mary Potter. _9214
245	1	0	_aChemo-therapist : _bhow cancer cured a marriage / _cby Mary Potter Kenyon.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_a[Sanger, California] : _bFamilius LLC, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a173 pages ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 169-171).
520			_aWhen Mary Potter Kenyon's husband, David, was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2006, she searched libraries and bookstores for books on cancer and the caregiving experience. What she discovered was a plethora of technical and medically-oriented books or those written by a caregiver whose loved one had died, a scenario she refused to contemplate. While serving as David's companion during Wednesday chemotherapy treatments, Mary began journaling about their experience as a couple and parents of young children as they navigated the labyrinth of cancer. It soon dawned on her that she was writing the very book she had searched for upon David's diagnosis: one that goes beyond the cancer experience to give hope and inspiration to the reader. Chemo-Therapist: How Cancer Cured a Marriage is a moving testimonial of a relationship renewed by the shared experience of a life threatening illness. Initially, after David's diagnosis, I would cringe when I read books or articles by cancer survivors who stated that cancer had been a gift in their lives. How could all that David endured be viewed as a gift? The invasive surgery, the weeks of chemotherapy and radiation: a gift?Yet, after the cancer, David would often reach for my hand and say, "If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, then it was all worth it." And I'd reluctantly agree that cancer had been a gift in our lives. We'd both seen the other alternative: patients and survivors who had become bitter and angry, and neither one of us wanted to become that.
600	1	0	_aKenyon, Mary Potter. _9214
650		0	_aSick _xFamily relationships. _9215
650		0	_aCancer _xPatients _zUnited States _vBiography. _9216
650		0	_aMarriage. _9217
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