
CANCER IS COMPLICATED: And Other Unexpected Lessons I've Learned
與癌同行的生活收納術
內容介紹
全美最強收納達人感性書寫抗癌的心路歷程,細數得知罹患乳癌那一刻到療程結束所承受的打擊與不適,同時收穫更深厚的親情與友情,體認到自己遠比想像中勇敢,藉此鼓勵癌友樂觀面對顛簸人生。
可莉.席爾 (Clea Shearer)與好友喬安娜.泰普林 (Joanna Teplin) 共同創辦居家整理公司The Home Edit,不僅打響空間收納品牌,成功晉身暢銷作家,更跨界製播實境節目。未想邁入四十歲那年被診斷出罹患乳癌,慣於掌控生活節奏的她,不得不接受自己陷入不可控的困局。因為癌症不是線性邏輯,沒有真正的起點或終點,不論是否願意,她都必須放下細節管理的執念,學着在漫長未知的療程中善待自己。
隨著治療進入尾聲,席爾也踏上人生下半場的起點。這本書不僅是她回顧這段曲折旅程的小結,也是寫給其他正承受癌症折磨,或是身邊有親友罹癌的讀者。席爾用坦然直白的文字紀錄自己的心境變化,同時分享她在抗癌期間所累積的經驗和建議,針對日常生活的大小難題提供見解,例如:如何為自己發聲、交友圈的哪些人適合分享病情、罹癌者的情緒層面、化療時的必備物品,以及食慾不振、胃口不佳時可以吃什麼食物等等。本書傳遞的溫柔能量將灌注無助的讀者希望與勇氣,整理內心思緒,從容迎向抗癌旅程。
Prologue: Everyone Says It’s a Journey but No One Says Where You’re Going
Chapter 1: Cancer Doesn’t Care If You’re Busy
Chapter 2: The Realization
Chapter 3: What’s Going On?
Chapter 4: The Biopsy
Chapter 5: Who Do I Tell?
Chapter 6: The Diagnosis
Chapter 7: Paris
Chapter 8: And So It Begins
Chapter 9: Complications
Chapter 10: The Red Devil
Chapter 11: Preparations
Chapter 12: Here Comes Chemo
Chapter 13: Taking Back Control
Chapter 14: “Mommy, You’re Beautiful”
Chapter 15: Routine, Reclusion, Reflection
Chapter 16: The Last Round
Chapter 17: It’s Not Over, Is It?
Chapter 18: Up All Night
Chapter 19: Ringing the Bell
Chapter 20: The Rundown on Radiation
Chapter 21: My First Treatment
Chapter 22: Nights at the Radiation Basement
Chapter 23: “Meet Me at Midnight”
Chapter 24: The Nameless Sorrow
Chapter 25: New Year, New Drugs
Chapter 26: What and Who Helped, What and Who Didn’t
Chapter 27: Reconstruction
Chapter 28: What Comes Next
