Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy
by Geralyn Lucas
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Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last thing twenty-seven-year-old Geralyn expects to hear is a breast cancer diagnosis. And there is one part of the diagnosis that no one will discuss with her: what it means to be a young woman with cancer in a beauty-obsessed culture. Trying to find herself while losing her vibrancy and her looks, Geralyn embarks on a road of self-acceptance that will inspire all women. Although her story is show more explicitly about a period of time when she was driven by fear and uncertainty, Geralyn managed a transformation that will encourage all women under siege to discover their own courage and beauty. The important and outrageous lessons of Why I Wore Lipstick come fast and furious with the same gusto that Geralyn has learned to bring to every aspect of her life. show lessTags
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Interesting look at Breast Cancer and what it means to have a breast in the western world. Her decisions were brave and interesting.
Her fears about recurrance hit close to the bone while I'm waiting to see my oncologist later this month!
Her fears about recurrance hit close to the bone while I'm waiting to see my oncologist later this month!
A funny book about a very unfunny subject, breast cancer. I read this when my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and I found it helpful to read about someone else who has gone through the same thing she was (having a mastectomy).
Mein Leben mit Brustkrebs
Jan 8, 2015German
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