Ellen Weiss – författare

What do I do now? Why am I still so tired? Am I really cured? How do I reduce my risk of recurrence? Is it safe for me to get pregnant? How do I get rid of the hot flashes so I can sleep?  This fully revised and updated second edition contains crucial information about these issues and more—including the revolutionary medical advances in follow-up testing, ongoing treatments, and recovery. With answers for everything from how to deal with hair loss and weight gain to finding online support groups and understanding healthy foods and supplements, Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer contains a greater depth and breadth of information in its enhanced chapters—plus all-new chapters that cover current treatment options and preventative tips for those at high risk for developing breast cancer.Enhanced Chapters:•    Tests: Peer, Poke, and Prod•    After Mastectomy: Re-creating a Breast with or Without Surgery•    Intimacy, Sex, and Your Love Life: Relieving Discomfort and Increasing Libido•    A Child in Your Future: Fertility, Pregnancy, and Adoption•    Reducing Your Risk: Living WellAll-New Information:•    Pre-Survivors: Risks and Prevention•    Thinking and Remembering: Clearing the Fog and Sharpening Your Mind•    Bone Health: Weakness Explained and Strengthening Exercises•    Sleep: Restoration and Renewal With this book as your guide, you’ll have the tools not just to live beyond breast cancer, but to live well and well beyond this challenge in your life!From the Trade Paperback edition.

"How can I know if I''m really cured?""Will anyone ever be attracted to me again?""Will I ever get to enjoy sex again?""It is safe for me to get pregnant?""How do I live well beyond menopause without estrogen replacement therapy?""What do I tell my boss?""My daughter wants to know if she''s going to get breast cancer too.  What should I tell her?"If you are one of the 2.6 million women in the U.S. living beyond breast cancer, these may be some of the questions troubling you.  You''ve been through diagnosis and treatment; now you''re ready to move from "I have breast cancer" back to "I am leading a normal life."  Living Beyond Breast Cancer will help you understand and manage the tough issues you face as you go on beyond treatment, and well into the future.You''ll learn how to become as healthy as possible for as long as possible by eating right, managing your weight, and finding an exercise program  that works with your lifestyle.  You''ll find out what to do if you''ve got to stop taking hormones or want to start.  You may also need advice on achieving intimacy and having a baby.  You''ll also find invaluable guidance on growing older and navigating troubling symptoms of menopause, particularly when they''re brought on by chemotherapy or tamoxifen or by stopping hormone replacement therapy.  A normal life includes dealing with job and health care issues and wills. So you''ll find in-depth information on these subjects too.You''re a survivor, and you''ve got a future.  This empathetic book, filled with comprehensive medical information, practical advice, and the voices of survivors who have lived through everything you''re going through, will help you celebrate your second chance at living beyond breast cancer.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Pepper and Jake love herding sheep in the little valley where they live. But there's a problem— a big problem. Urk, a giant who lives on a nearby mountain, is big and stinky and doesn't care that dumping dirty laundry water in the nearby stream causes a flood down below every single week. So Pepper and Jake hike to Urk's mountaintop lair to confront him. But there's no reasoning with a giant, especially one who gives cryptic puzzles to solve. If the kids can solve it, Urk will move away. If not, Pepper and Jake (and their sheep) will be the featured ingredients in Urk's next bowl of smelly soup!