Breast Cancer: One Illness, Two Women, Four Seasons.Breast Cancer: One Illness, Two Women, Four Seasons Mary Ellen Havard and Mary Openlander Penultimate pe·nul·ti·mate adj. 1. Next to last. 2. Linguistics Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress. n. The next to the last. Publishing 606 North and South Road, Saint Louis Saint Louis (l  `ĭs), city (1990 pop. 396,685), independent and in no county, E Mo., on the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Missouri; inc. as a city 1822. St. , Missouri 63130 0976067501 $15.95 www.penultimatepbl.com Originally written as a journal of a woman diagnosed with breast cancer, who recorded each step of her journey partly as a way to keep fear and uncertainty under control, Breast Cancer: One Illness, Two Women, Four Seasons offers the perspective of a patient--one who felt she was practically living in two worlds, one side of herself terrified ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. and unable to think, the other determined to face head-on the job of surviving her ordeal. A moving and inspirational in·spi·ra·tion·al adj. 1. Of or relating to inspiration. 2. Providing or intended to convey inspiration. 3. Resulting from inspiration. personal testimony, recounting the author's transformation and growth over the six and a half years since the initial diagnosis, and her experiences with both conventional and alternative therapies. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this intensely personal account. |
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