| View Larger Image | ONE YEAR TO LIVE? A Nobody's Guide to Surviving Cancer
by Patch Rose
| | List Price: | $19.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1925406 | | Studio: | Booklocker.com, Inc. | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 92 | | Publication Date: | October 04, 2007 | | Publisher: | Booklocker.com, Inc. |
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Product Description
From author Patch Rose: "I'm a nobody. I'm not a famous personality or a world-class athlete. I have no money, no influence, and no hair. In short, I'm just like you. Yet, I am the new face of Cancer." |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 3 reviews)
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Laugh, cry and be lifted up 
Diagnosed with brain cancer. What are you gonna do? Cry? Hide? Rend your clothes and take to your bed? Not Patch Rose. He chose to meet his experience head on, with honesty and humor, and to share it with the rest of us. I chuckled, sighed, shed a tear, and laughed out loud. He says he's an ordinary guy, and I believe him because he shares what are very common experiences. But his talent to bring us in close to share it all with him is extra-ordinary. This is a wonderful read. I'm a physician and have recommended it to my physician friends, patients, and patients' families.
March 09, 2008 | |
Positive living in a difficult time
A wonderful recounting of the ups and downs of living with cancer. Amusing and inspiring at the same time. It is neither pollyannish nor fatalistic, showing perhaps a middle way during what many would see as a hopeless time. I would recommend this book to anyone who has trouble in their lives (all of us), not just those with cancer.
February 28, 2008 | |
A Nobody's Guide to Cancer... for Everybody
UP-FRONT DISCLOSURE: Patch Rose is my brother... but I read him anyway... he's good, so give him a try!
Of the eighteen columns included, I smiled and laughed, nodded knowingly, and experienced blessings sent and received when reading A Woman Like Velma (you'll begin to think that an IMRT radiation machine is a real and powerful person... shades of 2001: A Space Odyssey), Little Missy (on the allure of comforting, but junk, food), Miracles (how Patrick's circle of support worked some), Cookie Crumbling (how Sylvia, Patrick's wife "Cookie," experienced care-taking and giving), 3rd & 10 (a creative account of cancer and recovery narrated by famed sportscasters), and, Two Phone Calls (writing about recovery helps someone clear across the country).
As I finished my brother's humorous and hopeful book I realized he has succeeded in doing what any of us may choose to do in the face of suffering, if we dare.... To make Light of it.
October 28, 2007 | |
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