num_pages: 242
description: For as long as I can remember, when inside my head got overcrowded and troubles were getting me down, I would take pen to paper and let all those thoughts just spill out. My writing would act as a release valve and keep my head from exploding. It must have saved me a fortune in psychiatrist fees. Seeing my thoughts in black and white would enable me to sift through them and rationally solve my problems. My biggest trouble to date, being diagnosed with breast cancer, prompted me to sit once more and let the floodgates open. This, I knew, was going to take more than just a few pages so I decided to keep a diary. It proved to be invaluably therapeutic for me. As a 'domestic technician' I don't have any medical credentials and neither do I have any journalistic skills; so what you are about to read is written in ordinary everyday language. It tells of not only my journey from diagnosis to surgery, the subsequent chemo and radiotherapy treatments but also of what I can only describe as a shocking discovery that I made living life as a cancer patient. I feel that people need to be educated more on how their actions or should I say lack of them, when coming in contact with a cancer patient, can be so detrimental to the mental well being of that person. Hopefully after reading this diary you will have gained some insight into the mind of a cancer patient without being blinded by all the usual jargon and together we can help to eliminate that awful stigma attached to a cancer diagnosis.
language: English
title: My Left Boob: The Diary of Ann-being-frank
titlecomplete: My Left Boob: The Diary of Ann-being-frank
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub