Hope for the Journey Through Cancer

by Ortega, Yvonne

• ISBN13: 9780800731861
• ISBN10: 0800731867
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co

Summary

Cancer touches nearly everyone, whether firsthand or through the life of a loved one. Counselor and teacher Yvonne Ortega discovered this when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and began her journey to recovery. In Hope for the Journey through Cancer, she shares with readers her personal triumphs and setbacks with humor and refreshing candor, always reminding us of God??'s desire to meet us exactly where we are. These sixty devotions are divided into sections???diagnosis, surgery, treatment, and recovery???each incorporating Scripture into daily life. Ortega??'s attention to even the most basic hopes and fears that a cancer patient faces each day offers encouragement that can come only from one who has been there herself.

Author Biography

Yvonne Ortega is a certified domestic violence and abuse counselor and a member of the Virginia Board of Counseling. She is also a five-year cancer survivor. Ortega lives in Yorktown, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Diagnosis
The News I Didn't Want to Hear	p. 27
The Joy of the Lord	p. 29
Angry Thoughts	p. 31
Riding the Roller Coaster Backward	p. 33
The Red-Sea-Splitting God	p. 35
Intended for Good	p. 37
Tears and More Tears	p. 39
Hit Broadside	p. 41
The Blue Card	p. 43
Surgery
Memories of 1995	p. 47
A Tenderhearted Nurse	p. 49
The One in Charge	p. 51
Not Me!	p. 53
My Drain Bulb Angel	p. 55
Twelve Inches or Twelve Feet	p. 57
Splashes of Joy	p. 59
Not Alone	p. 61
My Daily Carrot Juice	p. 63
Love in the Storm	p. 65
Blood and Burns	p. 67
Dracula's Blood Bank	p. 69
Clean at Last	p. 71
A Mixed Message	p. 73
A Swirling Mind	p. 75
Longing for a Healing	p. 77
Too Much Reality	p. 79
On the Road Again	p. 81
Back to School	p. 83
To Life	p. 85
Strength in Weakness	p. 87
Surprise!	p. 89
The Poster Child for Cancer	p. 91
I Want to Live!	p. 93
Treatment
Decision Time	p. 97
Struggling for a Normal Life	p. 100
My Strength and My Song	p. 102
A Long Day at the Hospital	p. 104
Shopping for a Wig	p. 106
An Extra Charge	p. 108
An Unexpected Setback	p. 110
Bubbly Bob	p. 112
Freedom for the Captives	p. 114
Reunions in the Hospital	p. 116
Fight, Yvonne, Fight!	p. 118
Hopping with Hope	p. 120
Out of the Cage	p. 122
The Last Round	p. 125
Good-bye PICC Line	p. 127
Germans and Muslims	p. 129
Painted for Warfare	p. 131
Giggles, Geniality, and George	p. 133
Tangier Island	p. 135
Riding the Shuttle	p. 138
Turbans and Tightwads	p. 140
Recovery
Getting Ready to Live	p. 145
Fear of Lymphedema	p. 147
In the Counseling Mode	p. 149
On the Farm at Last	p. 151
Lessons from the Trenches	p. 153
The Ultimate Healing	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 157
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