What Doesn't Kill You ...: The Highs, Lows and Unexpected Gifts of Surviving Cancer

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Rachel Haynes

What Doesn't Kill You ...

The Highs, Lows and Unexpected Gifts of Surviving Cancer

Rachel Haynes

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Watkins Publishing
17 March 2020

Memoirs; Oncology; Coping with illness

Rachel Haynes survived bowel cancer, not once, but twice. There have been many unexpected consequences ... this is her story. Exploring the ups and downs of treatment with sensitivity, humour and brutal honesty, Rachel reflects on the psychological impacts of survival not only on herself but on those who have supported her.

Rachel Haynes survived bowel cancer, not once, but twice. There have been many unexpected consequences ... this is her story. Exploring the ups and downs of treatment with sensitivity, humour and brutal honesty, Rachel reflects on the psychological impacts of survival not only on herself but on those who have supported her.

Being diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer while bringing up two growing children, holding down a full time job, going through a break-upand having three days to adjust to a life-changing operation is far from ideal. Add to this a short period of remission, a new relationship, followed by an unexpected relapseand the whole thing starting again, and you know you are going to be in for an interesting read.

Bowel cancer, despite being the UK's second biggest cancer killer still receives a shockingly low level of funding. This book aims in to help this, but to also tell Rachel's unique story of survival. Her experience presents a wake-up call to what's important in life and the truth about surviving against the odds.

This book is a funny and enlightening story about physical survival and then the messy psychological legacy of unexpected survival. Of wake-up calls that failed and an overwhelming urge to finally make sense of a life that Rachel was not expected to see.

What lies beneath survival is the realisation that the end of treatment is not the end of the story.

What doesn't kill you ...

By: Rachel Haynes
Imprint: Watkins Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm,
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781786783554
ISBN 10: 178678355X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 17 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Haynes is a marketing director and a mother of two children, who found, surprisingly, that one of the 'gifts' of discovering she had bowel cancer was her ability to write with disarming honesty and humour about her survival.