A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage - A Cancer Journal: Father I Daughter We (Paperback)

A fascinating and instructive account of how a family managed while suffering with breast cancer. The emotional strategies used by a father and a daughter while confronting a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. "A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal" is a look at a father and daughter's relationship, set in the old south--Lexington, Kentucky, with its special history of compassion and yet racial divides; a story of unity in the face of diversity."A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal" is told through edited entries from a journal maintained by the father, poetry from the daughter, and discussions of how to manage a family while fighting the terror of double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments."A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal" revealsthe special fears occasioned by race when seeking medical support; thephilosophical and psychological issues one faces while confronting theuncertainty created by breast cancer. In addition, sources of information helpful for families to become cancer survivors is provided.