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Breast Cancer
The Little Book of Hope
Joyce Giannini
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Price: $16.95
Casebound w/ Jacket | 128 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9798921-0-3 |
Summary
Highly inspirational as well as educational, through beautifully written poetry and prose this book will provide readers with an unusually positive and comforting way to look at their breast cancer experience. BREAST CANCER The Little Book of Hope blends narrative and poetry writing in order to assist women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer in understanding and getting through the procedures ahead of them with a sense of hope, guidance, and humor. Readers will learn how to look and feel beautiful both during and after having to go through a mastectomy and chemotherapy. The author, having had 2 other immediate family members (her mother and sister) who have survived breast cancer without being pregenetically disposed to the disease, also addresses the reasons why beef in America is causing the proliferation of all kinds of cancer. Having survived breast cancer twice herself with a current 95% cure prognosis, the author is able to provide readers with a true sense of peace as they conquer the disease by reaching out, becoming strong and proactive in their treatment and recovery.
About the Author
My name is Joyce Giannini. I received my masters in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University in 1993. I received my B.A. in English Literature from UCLA in 1986. I have since worked with adults as well as foster children, conducting assessments and providing individual therapy. I have a fraternal twin sister, Sharon, who interestingly has not had breast cancer even though my mother had it, and my older sister, after finding out that I had breast cancer, decided to have a prophylactic (preventative) mastectomy where they found the beginning stages of breast cancer. Unlike me, Sharon has been a vegetarian for much of her adult life. We were born in 1960 to a wealthy family in Brentwood, California, and were the youngest of 6 children. My mother was a college educated homemaker and my father was a lawyer who was appointed by the late President Ronald Reagan, to become a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge. |
