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edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Deanna Favre
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  • sflow
    sflow Member Posts: 297
    edited October 2007

    I watched Monday Night football last night and was surprised that the wife of Brett Favre is a BC survivor and has written a book. Now that I am nearly a year out of diagnosis, I would like to read some positive informative memoirs of some BC survivors. Anyone recommend some good ones?

    Sandi

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  • BethNY
    BethNY Member Posts: 2,710
    edited March 2008

    She was dx not too long ago actually.  As far as memoirs, I think it depends on what you relate with...

    I loved 'Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, by Geralyn Lucas (the book not the lifetime movie) b/c I could relate to her.

    There are so many different memoirs.  The first date back to the best seller 'First You Cry' by Betty Rollins who was dx in 1974 when the big C wasn't talked about.

    I also liked 'the Victorias secret catalogues don't stop coming'

    My suggestion is to go to Borders or Barnes and Nobles, and look through the selection.  It's quite large. 

    A positive feel good book is Chicken Soup for the breast cancer survivors soul.

    Also, Betty Rollins latest book- that I can't recall the name- is all about how failures and surviving cancer shaped her life...

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited October 2007

    Betty Rollin's book is called 'First You Cry'-- I read it back in the 70's when I was a teen. It moved me, not sure how it compares to the more modern books, but she was a pioneer.

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  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 7,969
    edited October 2007

    Uplift is on my list as an awsome book as is Cancer made me a Shallow person.

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited October 2007

    I also liked 'uplift' because it gave good hints to get yourself through the treatments. And I read the 'Lipstick' book 2 days prior to my bilat surgery and again after my surgery.

    Sheila

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  • BethNY
    BethNY Member Posts: 2,710
    edited March 2008

    I found the title of betty rollins new book:

    Here's the bright side (of failure, fear, cancer, divorce, and other bum raps)

    pretty cute title...

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited November 2007

    Here's Betty's first book on breast cancer - first you cry. It's probably an interesting read for those interested in the historical perspective from the 70's before breast cancer was widely spoken about.  I didn't know about her newer one.  http://www.amazon.com/First-You-Cry-Betty-Rollin/dp/0060956305

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