Greetings from Cancerland

<p>Shortly after Alysa Cummings was diagnosed with breast cancer she sat down at her laptop computer and began keeping a journal. Over the two years of her cancer treatment Alysa continued writing as she moved through the healthcare delivery system:</p><p><i>I fantasized that I could somehow use my computer to craft a story with an upbeat next chapter or fairy tale happily-ever-after ending. Looking back that's the only explanation I can come up with why I felt so compelled to create a record of my day-to-day experiences as a cancer patient. The one thing I could control were these words that crowded each other as they quickly appeared on my computer screen; these stories that flowed through my fingertips in such a manic rush; these traumatic adventures that happened to me in a place I began to call CancerLand. </p><p>CancerLand: it's this parallel universe I swear separate and apart from the rest of life as I once knew it. How did I end up in this wacky Bizarro World filled with freaky language and even stranger rituals? </i></p><p>Gradually her daily journal entries became vignettes and poems that were published on the OncoLink website. Greetings from CancerLand a collection of Alysa's writing from 2002-2012 charts one breast cancer survivor's journey as she discovers the power of writing to move her recovery forward. </p>