Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor
Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor

Author: Lynne P. Taylor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0199897794

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Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor is a guide for anyone affected by brain tumors and their associated conditions-patients, family members, friends, and caregivers. Providing readily accessible information and real-world encouragement to people living with primary and metastatic brain tumors and their caregivers, this book discusses the basics of brain tumors, types of tumors, management of different tumors, related symptoms, treatments and side effects, the role of medical team members, and coping strategies from initial diagnosis throughout the course of the illness. At the same time, it also offers practical suggestions on symptom management and lifestyle modification, as well as real-life anecdotes and advice from both patients and family members and friends who are experiencing this diagnosis.

Living with a Brain Tumor
Living with a Brain Tumor

Author: Peter Black

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0805079688

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Each year, 100,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with a brain tumor. With his new book, Dr. Peter Black fills a gap in the lay readership, providing an accessible medical resource for adult patients and their families. Dr. Black, who has operated on more than 3,000 patients with brain tumors, is uniquely qualified to discuss both clinical treatment of and research into brain tumors. This invaluable resource tells patients everything they need to know to understand and address their diagnosis, in a four-part structure: • "What is a Brain Tumor?" provides straightforward information about how brain tumors are diagnosed, the different types of tumors and how they develop, and where to go for treatment. • "Coping with Shock" addresses the emotional impact of the diagnosis on the patient and their family, offering specific advice on support groups and how to managing work and finances during your treatment. • "Treatment options" outlines the complex array of available treatments in a sequential, logical, and thorough manner, enabling readers to make informed decisions. • "Recovery" describes how to deal with the aftermath, addressing issues ranging from physical scars to speech and occupational therapy. Dr. Black believes that more than half of brain tumor cases can be resolved with relatively minor side effects or none at all. Equipped with this informative book, patients and their family and friends can learn how to fight brain tumors effectively, putting them on the path to wellness.

Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis
Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis

Author: Kathleen Costello

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0199381739

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Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis will serve as a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long disease. MS may cause a myriad of symptoms and varies greatly from person to person. The authors demystify MS and offer practical solutions and guidance based upon their extensive combined clinical and research experience. The book tackles many of the common symptoms experienced by the person with MS and looks into the future to explore where research is headed. If you are newly diagnosed or have been living with MS for years, this book is an invaluable guide.

Navigating Life with Dementia
Navigating Life with Dementia

Author: James M. Noble

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190495685

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"Since you have opened this book, you or a close friend or family member have likely been impacted by the upsetting and frightening diagnosis of dementia. You may have been told about this diagnosis in a number of different ways. Either the term dementia was used, or other words associated with or more specific than dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy Body disease, frontotemporal dementia, or Pick's disease, were used. You may even have been misinformed at first and told that you were simply facing the normal changes of aging, such as forgetfulness or mild depression. Sometimes these terms are relatable based on others we know who have been affected by them. But they can be shocking to hear and hard to understand when talking about yourself or a loved one. Even more difficult is that none of the most common forms of dementia currently have treatments that can cure or slow the disease"--

Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor
Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor

Author: Lynne P. Taylor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0199311226

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Providing readily accessible information and real-world encouragement to people living with primary and metastatic brain tumors, this book discusses the basics of brain tumors, types of tumors, management of different tumors, related symptoms, treatments and side effects, the role of medical team members, and coping strategies from initial diagnosis throughout the course of the illness. At the same time, it also offers practical suggestions on symptom management and lifestyle modification, as well as real-life anecdotes and advice from both patients and family members and friends who are experiencing this diagnosis. Written by two experts working with a professional writer, as well as advice from other professionals, the book is crystal clear and easy to use. Balancing the uncertainties of prognosis with hope, Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor is an authoritative, realistic, yet compassionate guide to living with brain cancer.

Navigating Glioblastoma
Navigating Glioblastoma

Author: Sally Connolly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-07-10

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1476641064

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A stale marriage. A deadly diagnosis. For Sally Connolly, three years of struggle followed her husband Peter's surgery for terminal brain cancer at age 61. Choosing treatment options that interfered least with his career, Peter focused his limited energy on work, with little left for his family, further straining the marriage during his remaining days. Connolly's clear-eyed and affecting memoir recounts their wrangling over gender roles, money management, domestic decisions and lifestyle changes. Through their traumatic journey, they find humor and comfort in unexpected places.

Navigating Life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Navigating Life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Author: Mark B. Bromberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0190241624

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Navigating Life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family members, and caregivers face when confronted by ALS. This guide covers all aspects of managing ALS, from the onset of symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and coping strategies, to the use of home health care or hospice, and new research in the field. The book also sheds lights on difficult topics, such as end-of-life care and managing legal affairs. Formatted in a question-and-answer style, peppered throughout with patient stories, and with sections devoted to family members and caregivers, this compassionate resource provides guidance to those seeking to understand how to live with this disease.

Everybody Needs a Brain Tumor
Everybody Needs a Brain Tumor

Author: David Koelliker

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780692993118

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Everybody Needs a Brain Tumor details the experience of David Koelliker's 8+ year battle with a brain tumor and the many lessons he's learned along the way. According to the American Brain Tumor Association, nearly 80,000 people will be diagnosed with a brain tumor this year. Roughly a third of those are malignant. Every day there are families being told that their mother, father, brother, sister, or child has 3-18 months to live. Your life's 'brain tumor' may be something else. It might be an addiction, a disability, cancer, or losing a close friend or family member. The purpose of this book is to show all that even in life's most difficult challenges, we can find happiness. Through difficult times, we can learn and experience things that we would never have otherwise. It's a book about opportunity and about life, love, and hope.All proceeds will be donated to organizations dedicated to brain tumor research.

When Life Gives You Pears
When Life Gives You Pears

Author: Jeannie Gaffigan

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1538751038

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The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother, Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of her battle with a pear-sized brain tumor. In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. As the mother of 5 kids -- 6 if you include her husband -- sat in the neurosurgery department in star-covered sweats too whimsical for the seriousness of the situation, all she could think was "Am I going to die?" Thankfully, Jeannie and her family were able to survive their time of crisis, and now she is sharing her deeply personal journey through this miraculous story: the challenging conversations she had with her children; how she came to terms with feeling powerless and ferociously crabby while bedridden and unable to eat for a month; and how she ultimately learned, re-learned and re re-learned to be more present in life. With sincerity and hilarity, Jeannie invites you into her heart (and brain) during this trying time, emphasizing the importance of family, faith and humor as keys to her recovery and leading a more fulfilling life.