Still With MeA Daughter Journey of Love and Loss edition by Andrea King Collier Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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Despite its subject—her mother’s valiant, but losing battle with ovarian cancer—Andrea King Collier has used that experience to write an honest, funny, empowering book that has relevance to anybody, anywhere, who has loved and lost a parent. And with it, she also deliberately breaks new ground in the African-American community by openly discussing cancer and terminal illness.
On Andrea’s ninth wedding anniversary, her mother called and said simply “they think I have cancer.” A year later, nearly to the day, her mother died. In the intervening twelve months, Andrea takes on the enormous task of caregiver and principal support system while juggling the needs of her own children and husband. She becomes both a clearing house for cancer information and her mother’s chief advocate regarding her medical care, but she never stops being the daughter of an outspoken, independent woman who insists on confronting her illness on her own terms. She soon finds out that all the stuff that mothers and daughters carry around for years doesn’t go poof and disappear just because cancer shows up.
Andrea Collier’s voice is that of a best friend who shares the frustrations, anger and setbacks of a family dealing with a terminal illness. And she candidly describes how both she and her mother were sustained, and transformed by their mutual love and devotion.
Whether writing about navigating the maze of diagnosis, treatment and quality of care, or finding joy in the every day dramas of being a mommy to two little children or searching for ways to go back to “normal” after the loss of a loved one, Collier does it with honesty, humor, and hope. Still With Me is a new kind of American love story—a love letter to all mothers and daughters.
Still With MeA Daughter Journey of Love and Loss edition by Andrea King Collier Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
A true story of strength,love and resiliency. I felt the apprehensions and fears, and celebrated each victory that Andrea and her Mom ( Earlene) conquered. It was an eye- opening journey that I embraced with them, as Andrea is indeed my hero.Product details
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Still With MeA Daughter Journey of Love and Loss edition by Andrea King Collier Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
Still with Me is a wonderful read, beautifully written and warmly delivered. It is universal in its message and will touch anyone who has lost a parent. I began reading the book in a restaurant as I dined alone; but became somewhat self-conscious as I cried almost as many times as I laughed, and sometimes that happened on the same page. This book promises to be not only a best seller but would make a splendid movie.
I felt as though I was in the same room with Andrea King Collier listening to her tell this story. It is a true account of the roller coaster of emotions that accompany caring for an ill parent. The book demonstrates the importance of preventative health care and the reasons to advocate for one's own health. It is fortunate that Andrea had the support of her husband, the distraction of two young children, the strength to care for her mother, and a sense of humor to help make it through even the darkest of days. This book is a tribute and an inspiration to all women.
A wonderful and endearing story of a daughter and mother's love for each other and the feelings the daughter goes through during her mother's illness and then homegoing ... Be ready to laugh and cry and all the emotions in between.
I was so moved and so utterly totally shaken by this book that I have been crying though the reading, my nose running and my chest tight. Now I am just raw with my grief. This book isn't so much about Ms Collier's mother as it is about all our mothers.
I am one of those daughter's who has taken on the care of an elderly parent. My mother is still living and I have been her "assisted care" for several years. In the years since my mother suffered a debillitating stroke I have struggled with the varying feelings of helplessness, inadequacy, andger, resentment - all of those and more.
This book is a gift to all of the daughters, all of the caregivers. It gave me permission to cry, to let it all out.
Beyond a clearly superior ability to write - the author posesses an indefinable quality that allows her to dip into universal truths and make them personal and immediate. "Unflinching" as one review characterizes it, does not even come close.
This is a touching, candid, loving portrait of a woman and her mother dealing with cancer, personal and social taboos, and death. I highly recommend it to anyone dealing with a cancer diagnosis in the family.
A true story of strength,love and resiliency. I felt the apprehensions and fears, and celebrated each victory that Andrea and her Mom ( Earlene) conquered. It was an eye- opening journey that I embraced with them, as Andrea is indeed my hero.
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