My Mommy Wears A Wig is about a mother who talks to her daughter about breast cancer. The story is told from a child's point of view and includes talking about the breast cancer, to helping her mother look for a wig at the wig store and preparing for treatment with the entire family. My Mommy Wears A Wig incorporates lighthearted humor and laughter while presenting its topic in a child friendly way.
Lori Allen helps women rediscover their worth as she encourages them to age well with style and sass. Women today are facing so much uncertainty—about life and the future. For Lori Allen, business owner, breast cancer survivor, and star of TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, her advice stems from the ups and downs of her personal life: from building one of the biggest and busiest bridal megasalons in the country to navigating her position in the sandwich generation and caring for a husband battling cancer during her own breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. In Say Yes to What’s Next, Lori addresses crucial issues, such as how to: Pivot, embrace the unexpected, and live out your passion Practice essential self-care that enriches your mind, body, and spirit Make space for yourself and your priorities while still being a caring partner, parent, and friend Maintain a close circle of friends at every age and stage of life Take charge of your money and attain financial freedom and security Say Yes to What’s Next is more than just a guide for our best tomorrows, it’s the beginning of a life-makeover movement for women of all ages.Whether you’re feeling invisible, ignored, or like your voice doesn’t matter, or you’re simply uncertain about what’s next, Lori offers advice on what to do, what not do, and how to see your way through the unexpected.
When a mommy is diagnosed with breast cancer, her little girl feels afraid. What will happen to her mommy? As her mother finds a way to gently tell her daughter about her treatments and how she will temporarily change, the little girl soon discovers that having a mommy with cancer isnt as scary as she thought. In this childrens tale inspired by real events, a child learns all about illness, medicine, and most importantly, hope after her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer.
A mother’s job is never done, but in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks to My Mom, she gets the praise she deserves! Children of all ages share their words of thanks in these 101 stories of love, learning, and gratitude to the woman they couldn’t have done without! This new collection is filled with heartwarming and entertaining anecdotes by grateful children, all in praise of the woman who encourages them, supports them, and most importantly, loves them. These stories will brighten any mother’s day, and show her that the kids were paying attention after all.
Twenty years after she lost her mother to breast cancer, Heather St. Aubin-Stout receives a postcard asking her to come back for magnifications of her recent mammogram. She asks for prayers from her family, friends, and neighbors. Prayers not for her to be cured but for her strength and wisdom. When she is diagnosed, she soon faces her memories of what she experienced with her mothers illness and death. However as she deals with her illness and treatments while she and her husband try to parent their three independent teenage sons she discovers that this is Not My Mothers Journey. Heather chronicles her journey with candid honesty discussing her challenges, confusions, and emotions with daily life while dealing with a potentially terminal disease. She engages the reader with everyday life experiences. She knows that each journey is unique, but she believes that we are here to help each other and by sharing our stories well make the individual path less painful, no matter what were dealing with.
A true and heart warming account of a journey through breast cancer. A diagnosis of breast cancer made Michelle Williams-Huw, mother of two small boys, re-evaluate her life as she battled her demons to come to terms with the illness. My Mummy Wears A Wig is poignant, sad, revelatory and deliciously funny. Readers will be riveted by her honesty and enchanted as, having hit bottom, she falls in love with life (and her husband) all over again. My Mummy Wears A Wig is a moving and humorous account of Michelle's personal journey, which reveals the fears, the hopes and the absurdity of her situation. With two small children to care for and a life in turmoil, she recounts her day to day struggles while undergoing nine months of treatment. She relates with captivating candour, the effects that the illness has on her relationships with her husband and those around her.
Tells a story of Aisha, an eight year old, African American girl, reliving her experience with cancer, and the loss of her hair. Her mother takes her to a wig store to help her find something to make her feel more comfortable with her hairloss. What does she find? Join her as she travels down memory lane. The feelings she had before, during and after treatment, and how she overcame them. It is a reassuring book that can help relieve some of the fears and questions that any child battling cancer, or a child that may have a loved one undergoing cancer treatment may have. Especially issues of hair loss, rejection, and self esteem. It is an effective tool that may help open the lines of communication between child and adult. Jack III created effective illustrations to ease any discomfort you may have while trying to explain cancer to a child. It is a helpful and much needed resource and tool.
I have always been healthy but it seemed as if once I turned forty, my check engine light came on with a vengeance. The first thing that happened was a surprise gall bladder removal but I handled that like a champ. The second thing came at me like a freight train. Cancer... I had experienced family members with cancer but they were all older. I was only in my early forties so how could this possibly happen. Plus, this was breast cancer. I had no family history of breast cancer. Little did I know just how wild an adventure I would go on. This was a fight for my life, my family and everything that I love.
For fans of The Princess Diaries and Famous in Love, an engrossing look behind the velvet ropes of stardom from a former Teen People Senior Editor who has seen it all. What if your picture was taped inside teenage boys' lockers across America, your closets were bursting with never-worn designer clothing, and the tabloids constantly asked whether you were losing your "good girl" status? It's a glamorous life, but 16-year-old Kaitlin Burke, co-star of one of the hottest shows on TV, is exhausted from the pressures of her fame. So she decides to spend two months undercover as an ordinary high school student. But could it be that real life high school is just as harsh as cutthroat Hollywood?? Don't miss the first book in the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series from Jen Calonita, author of the Fairy Tale Reform School series.
An inspiration of a girl being diagnosed with Leukemia, at the age of thirteen. Sharing the story of her difficult “cancer journey” when first diagnosed and many times wanting to give up, however, her family would not let her.
