A Father's Journey A Daughter's Voyage

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. <I>A Father's Journey A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal</I> 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.</p><I>A Father's Journey A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal</I> 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.</p><I>A Father's Journey A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal</I> 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.</p>