WE DEFINE OUR LIVES BY THE TELLING. Story-telling not only contains our experiences, but colors them permanently in our memories. Stories have the ability to tame our most fearful moments and provide objectivity and distance to our most painful ones. Kathlyn Conway tells her story of breast cancer's brutal invasion of her life, her career, and her family. Conway casts herself in her tale not as a heroine who transcends the destructive power of the disease, but as an utterly human sufferer.

A PRACTICING PSYCHOTHERAPIST with a husband and two young children, Conway gives a startlingly honest description of undergoing a mastectomy and chemotherapy and having to deal with doctors and lab technicians who weren't always sympathetic, all the while attempting to maintain normal relationships with her family and friends. Kathlyn Conway's willingness to share this highly personal story of herself as an angry, depressed, and sometimes selfish human being in her illness reveals the pain and suffering that cancer survivors endure.

ORDINARY LIFE

Table of Contents

• Introduction

1. Waiting Rooms

2. Prospects

3. Loss

4. On the Verge

5. The Descent

6. The Second and Third Cycles

7. Despair

8. The Journey Back

9. Ordinary Life

10. Anniversary

• Afterward

• Acknowledgments

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Question and Answer Session with Kathlyn Conway

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Information on The Race for the Cure





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