Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors

Barbara Delinsky

Simon and Schuster, May 20, 2003 - Health & Fitness - 311 pages

5th Anniversary Edition! Featuring a new Foreword by the author, as well as an additional chapter that follows up on the lives of the original contributors.

With Uplift, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky, whose life has been shaped by her mother's breast cancer as well as her own, created a resource she wished she'd had for herself during her own treatment: one that is filled with all the helpful advice that only the women who have already been there can tell us about -- from tips on even the smallest details of daily life to inspiring personal anecdotes that amuse, comfort, and instruct. Here, readers can find answers to all the questions they were afraid to -- or never even knew how to -- ask: What kind of deodorant can I use during radiation? Are there certain foods that really satisfy on treatment days? How do I address my surgery with my coworkers? Will I still feel feminine? And what about a sex life? Practical, warm, often funny, always reassuring, Uplift arms readers with the various means by which countless women diagnosed with breast cancer have faced their fears, survived their illness, and bravely gotten on with life and love, career and family.

Contents

• First Things First: 1
• Practical and Emotional: 21
• Soaking Up the Rays: 41
• Mane Matters: 57
• A Smorgasbord: 85
• Regaining Control: 102
• Our Inheritance: 125
• We Pick Em: 146
• Making It UserFriendly: 165
• From Traditional to Offbeat: 181
• You Gotta Laugh: 199
• By For and About: 213
• Making the Body Better: 238
• Come Again?: 251
• Bringing In the Big Gun: 270
• Acknowledgments: 299

About the author

Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her first child was born, she worked as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. Barbara's novels, Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
• Author: Barbara Delinsky
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2003
• ISBN: 0743431375, 9780743431378
• Length: 311 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer; Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / General; Health & Fitness / General; Health & Fitness / Women's Health; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare