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    Bald is Better With Earrings: A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
    Bald is Better With Earrings: A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
    Bald is Better With Earrings: A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
    Audiobook5 hours

    Bald is Better With Earrings: A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer

    Written by Andrea Hutton

    Narrated by Andrea Hutton

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    For the one in eight women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, a warm, practical, relatable handbook that dispels the terror and takes you step-by-step through the process, from diagnosis to post-treatment.

    When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted to know everything. She read books voraciously, devoured articles, surfed websites, and talked to everyone she knew. But nothing she found prepared her for what the surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation would feel like. Were there tricks for easing pain and discomfort? What was "fatigue" and how would it affect her? When people gave her a hug, could they tell she was wearing a prosthesis?

    What Hutton wanted was something she could not find: a clear how-to guide for the Cancer Girl she had become.

    Bald Is Better with Earrings is Andrea Hutton's answer - a straightforward handbook, leavened with humor and inspiration, to shepherd women diagnosed with breast cancer through the experience. Warm and down-to-earth, Hutton explains what to expect and walks the listener through the intensely emotional process of testing, telling loved ones, surgery, chemo, losing hair and shaving one's head, being bald, and radiation treatments.

    From tricks for treating skin during radiation and keeping track of meds to tips for tying headscarves and preventing lymph-edema, Hutton offers a wealth of invaluable advice, organized into practical Top 5 Tips for each stage of treatment and beyond. Compassionate, friendly, and shaped by Hutton's firsthand knowledge, Bald Is Better with Earrings is the comprehensive, essential companion for anyone dealing with breast cancer, from someone who's been there.

    ©2015 HarperWave (P)2015 Oasis Audio

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9781621885184
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    Andrea Hutton

    A graduate of Duke University and an interior designer, Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 at the age of forty-one. Andrea is now five years out and cancer-free. In addition to continuing her interior design career for select clients, Andrea is a marketing and management consultant. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband and two children.

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      I don't know about you, but I found this title irresistible. It perfectly conveys the attitude and topic of the book. With so many risk factors for breast cancer and so many women diagnosed every year, I can't see how it's ever too early to learn a bit about it. I knew the basics on what people do after being diagnosed, like get treatment and that it will likely involvement radiation, but I never knew the little things about it. Like what do people go through when they get radiation treatment?

      This book does a little bit of the scientific and medical speak to get the reader familiar with what's going on in the body of a patient, but that's not what it's really about. Bald is Better with Earrings is really about getting through it as best you can. I had listened to the audiobook, which is a short 5 hours, and loved the way she broke down getting through it all. Each chapter covers a different part of the process and includes personal tips on how to get through each part.

      To be specific, the book is broken down into 10 chapters that covers everything from suspecting that there's a problem to the last day of treatment. My favorite part was the way she talks about talking to other people. Okay, I haven't had cancer, but I have dealt with the insane things people say when they don't know what to say. She has tips for that too. While Hutton does consistently relay her experiences with breast cancer, this isn't a memoir. It's definitely a guide.

      I can't speak to how great it is for helping someone newly diagnosed get through their treatment, but Goodreads has plenty of reviews that are #ownvoices and quite favorable. For those of us who have not had cancer, it's a great insight into what it's like and how people deal with it and just might help us help them more. There's even a section on the support caregivers need and what those of us who are not the direct caregivers can do to support the family.