Finding Hope for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

by Ortega, Yvonne

• ISBN13: 9780800734091
• ISBN10: 0800734092
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co

Summary

Breast cancer affects everyone it touches, 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. In Finding Hope for Your Journey through Breast 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. In this repackaged book, sixty devotions are divided into sections--diagnosis, surgery, treatment, and recovery--each incorporating Scripture into daily life. It also includes a new chapter on living with the possibility that cancer may return. 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 an eight-year cancer survivor, a certified domestic violence and abuse counselor, and a member of the Virginia Board of Counseling. She lives in Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Diagnosis
The News I Didn't Want to Hear	p. 25
The Joy of the Lord	p. 27
Angry Thoughts	p. 29
Riding the Roller Coaster Backward	p. 31
The Red-Sea-Splitting God	p. 33
Intended for Good	p. 35
Tears and More Tears	p. 37
Hit Broadside	p. 39
The Blue Card	p. 41
Surgery
Memories of 1995	p. 45
A Tenderhearted Nurse	p. 47
The One in Charge	p. 49
Not Me!	p. 51
My Drain Bulb Angel	p. 53
Twelve Inches or Twelve Feet	p. 55
Splashes of Joy	p. 57
Not Alone	p. 59
My Daily Carrot Juice	p. 61
Love in the Storm	p. 63
Blood and Burns	p. 65
Dracula's Blood Bank	p. 67
Clean at Last	p. 69
A Mixed Message	p. 71
A Swirling Mind	p. 73
Longing for a Healing	p. 75
Too Much Reality	p. 77
On the Road Again	p. 79
Back to School	p. 81
To Life	p. 83
Strength in Weakness	p. 85
Surprise!	p. 87
The Poster Child for Cancer	p. 89
I Want to Live!	p. 91
Treatment
Decision Time	p. 95
Struggling for a Normal Life	p. 98
My Strength and My Song	p. 100
A Long Day at the Hospital	p. 102
Shopping for a Wig	p. 104
An Extra Charge	p. 106
An Unexpected Setback	p. 108
Bubbly Bob	p. 110
Freedom for the Captives	p. 112
Reunions in the Hospital	p. 114
Fight, Yvonne, Fight!	p. 116
Hopping with Hope	p. 118
Out of the Cage	p. 120
The Last Round	p. 123
Good-bye PICC Line	p. 125
Germans and Muslims	p. 127
Painted for Warfare	p. 129
Giggles, Geniality, and George	p. 131
Tangier Island	p. 133
Riding the Shuttle	p. 136
Turbans and Tightwads	p. 138
Recovery
Getting Ready to Live	p. 143
Fear of Lymphedema	p. 145
In the Counseling Mode	p. 147
On the Farm at Last	p. 149
Lessons from the Trenches	p. 151
The Ultimate Healing	p. 153
An Update from the Author	p. 155
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