Hi all,
Please see post below by Saskia Lichtenstern, a breast cancer survivor from London who has asked us to help her reach out to women about a book she is putting together written by thousands of breast cancer survivors for women stepping into their footsteps.
Saskia explains:
This book isn’t about being diagnosed with breast cancer, or the treatment; it’s about integrating back into ‘normal’ life when the treatment is over.
There’s no guidance for that part of the journey, and I believe that’s the hardest part of all.
Everyone
thinks the hardest part is the treatment, the chemo, the radiation, the hair
falling out…but it isn’t. The hardest part comes after, when the treatment is
over and we’ve been given the ‘all clear’. That’s when the hard part begins,
when it all stops.
This
book will be a life raft for women that have finished treatment and have no
idea where to go, what to do and who to be now it is all over.
Sharing
what we have learnt through hindsight means we can make the path smoother for
those women that are now stepping in our post treatment footsteps, and make
sure they do not feel alone and lost as we did back then.
I want to collect Five Pearls of wisdom from breast cancer survivors all over the world. The website www.thefivepearls.com has an easy to fill out form where survivors can submit their pearls and become an author of something extraordinary; a book by a sisterhood of survivors, a collaboration of wisdom, feelings and thoughts for women that are now stepping in our post treatment footsteps. Every survivor that opens up her soul and shares her Five Pearls of Wisdom will be accredited as an author of the book.
