Ordinary Life
Subtitle: A Memoir of Illness (Conversations in Medicine and Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: April 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780472032358
Subjects: Biography: general; Coping with illness; Oncology; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; Diseases - Breast Cancer; Diseases - Cancer; Women; Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer; Biography; Cancer; Conway, Kathlyn; Health; Patients
Description: Ordinary Life is a frank portrait of one woman's experience of living through three cancers, from diagnosis through treatment and on to recovery. Unlike the usual self-help book that portrays illness as a transformative experience in which the individual ultimately prevails physically, spiritually, and socially, Ordinary Life isn't afraid to inhabit and explore the nightmare world of human emotion evoked by life-threatening disease. Kathlyn Conway shows all sides fo her reaction to a deadly illness. Often she is despairing, angry, lonely terrified, and raging against her disease and its implications. Hers is a journey to the heart of darkness into which illness can take any individual. Yet Conway's very act of ocurage and honesty in exposing her fear reveals how normal such feelings are.