Have you been thinking pink this month? In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I’ve gone pink in my purchasing from bagels to kitchen sponges to potholders. So many companies have created special products or packaging to show their support of breast cancer research in the month of October. But when the month ends later this week, there will be many men and women who are still fighting cancer.
Michelle Rapkin has written a great book called Any Day with Hair is a Good Hair Day. The subtitle further explains the book: How to get through cancer and get on with your life (Trust me, I’ve been there).
I personally have not been there, but Ms. Rapkin’s book would help someone undergoing treatment (and though it’s from a woman’s perspective, the book would be useful to a man as well). She addresses issues with realistic expectations and advice, te
mpered with a bit of humor:
- how and why to let people help
- dealing with visitors
- coping with weight gain or weight loss
- helps for getting through treatment
- pain management
- interacting with the doctors
- Planet Cancer vs. Earth
- letting yourself off the hook
- and of course–the hair issue
We have a copy from the publisher to give away. This would be a great book to read if you have a close friend or family member currently battling cancer, but I would really like this book to go to at a reader who really needs it, or has a friend who does, so if that’s the case, let me know in the comments.
This contest is linked to Bloggy Giveaways Fall Y’all Giveaway. Click over for more giveaways all over the blogosphere!
The winners of last week’s books are:
Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia:
#48 Suzanne, #2 Erin Read, #33 Christy, #54 Wendy, #83 Lib
The Dead Whisper On by T.L. Hines
#13 Jenn in AZ
If you didn’t win, but want to buy, you can show your support by purchasing through the links.
Hi, would love to get this book. A close friend found out she had cancer when she was 6 months pregnant with her 4th child. She just felt something was not right. She had to induce early delivery of the baby (which luckily survived) and immediately undergo further scans only to find out that she had stage 4 breast cancer which had already spread to her bones. Apparently the pregnancy hormones really speed up the spread of cancer. She has had 4 kids in 4 years and is only 30 yrs old!
I’ve been battling cancer for 4 years and would enjoy reading this book:)
Enter me please
I would love to read this book as breast cancer runs in my husband’s family.
I would love this.
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My mother-in-law is currently going through chemo after having a double mastectomy w/ breast cancer. In the next couple months, she will start her radiation and follow up with more chemo. I would love to be able to give her a copy of this book. She is a strong woman and we in turn have fed off and grown from her strength during this battle. Please enter me…
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oh I love this giveaway!
thanks,
Shannon
palmersf@comcast.net
Looks like an informative read! Thanks!
Somedays are just like that! Enter me please!
I would love it!
Emily
princesslimey@gmail.com
Please count me in !
I know just who to give this to.
I have been fighting cancer for almost 5 years – thanks for a chance to win:)
I never got to meet my father-in-law since he died of esophageal cancer before I met my husband. I also have a good friend who defeated breast cancer, so this book would be very good to read and then give to her.
sounds like a great book
please put me in the draw
My mother is a breast cancer survivor & my father has Stage4 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma …. my whole family could read this book
I need to go look this one up on Amazon.
Thanks for the drawing. My grandmother died of breat cancer when she was only 45.
Count me in! I lost my dad to cancer last year and my grandmother in 1996. I have many friends & family who have been affected by cancer and volunteer quite a bit with the American Cancer Society. This is a cause that is near & dear to my heart. I would love to win & pass this book on to someone who is battling cancer! Good luck everyone!
Happy Monday!
Jennifer 🙂
I do have a friend that is suffering from cancer right now. Thanks for the giveaway.
Oooh what a wonderful giveaway, please add my name to your draw:-) xox
Great giveaway! My Granny is a breast cancer survivor! Please count me in! I’m doing a giveaway over at my place. Hope you stop by.
I heard this was a good book
Ohh I’d love to enter! I have cancer and I love to read books about dealing with it
I currently live with cancer and would love to read some of the subjects addressed in this book.
I would love to win this for my aunt!
I know just the person who would be blessed by this book.
That would really comfort my grandmother who is currently battling breast cancer.
Count me in, my dad is a colon cancer survivor.
I’d love to win this. My mom is a 27 year breast cancer survivor.
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My husband died of cancer. Would like to read this one.