Surviving Breast Cancer

About the Book

Debbie takes you along on her journey of surviving breast cancer; the fears, the sadness, feeling lost, out of control and her feelings of aloneness. She shares with you her inner most thoughts and feelings, and how she was determined to be a Survivor. Through this tragic event in her life and the life of her new husband, she shares her strength, courage and love for others. She found the support she needed from friends, doctors and family, learning to love herself again, so that others could love her. It is through the grieving process that she learned taking one day at a time, a moment at a time, that each day is a Gift! Breast cancer does not have to be the end of life: it can be just the Beginning!

About the Author

Debbie, originally from Toledo, Ohio, became a Registered Nurse in 1973. She started her nursing career in Critical Care for eighteen years. In 1991 she began working in a Long Term Care Rehabilitation Center as an Assistant Director of Nursing and then became the Director of Nursing for fours years. Moving to Arizona in 1997, after she raised her three sons as a single mother, she established a new life for herself in hospice care as a case manager, assisting patients and families through the end-of-life process. She remarried to her present husband Wayne in December of 2002. After fourteen months of marriage and still newlyweds, they discovered that she had breast cancer. It was during this journey of being a survivor that she found breast cancer to be a Gift! She shares this journey with other women, families, and healthcare professionals, to help them understand what they are feeling is normal and that they are not alone. She hopes to help others understand that breast cancer is not the end of life, but only the beginning!