Review: Courage...in Print
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
Before I read this book, I knew everything there was to know about Cancer. After I read it I realized I knew so little about it. Lisa Hinsley took me to her house and walked me down the path where the news first hit. That news everyone dreads, but rarely thinks about. It is the ultimate shock, and the most dreaded word that throws a shroud over everything we thought we knew about our mortality... but it only happens to other people not to us.My first thought was, Oh my God, my poor friends and relatives who had to deal with this! I was by their side when they were diagnosed, I offered help, hugs, gifts, caretaking, but I didn't really know what they felt until I read this wonderful author's  account of the actual reality of this diagnosis.I will never again assume this couldn't happen to me. I will never again imagine my hand is not needed when someone I care about is dealing with this dreaded disease. Because she had the courage to speak to this disease, I am no longer afraid of it. She is NOT dying of cancer, rather, living with cancer and that is clear in every page.The reason I read this book is because I wanted to know what someone so young feels when the diagnosis is "Cancer"  Where do they begin? What is the first thought?  Lisa Hensley tells it graphically, and she brings a reader to her bed and her life. The read gave me more hope than I knew I could have.  She slowed me down and described courage in a way I've never seen it and forced me to appreciate life in a way I never did. But mostly, she made me think about what matters, even when I thought I knew.I feel like I know her.  She is all of us. When you read her book, you will know why. Thank you Lisa.