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Green Rubber Boots: A Joyful Journey to Wellness

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An Uplifting Message
Everyone can benefit!
Interesting Account of NIH experimental work on sarcoma

Green Rubber Boots: A Joyful Journey to Wellness
Kathleen Whitmer
Manufacturer: Kleidon Publishing, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Practical tips and hope for cancer sufferers and their families are offered in this heartwarming book that contends life is a journey and each day can be filled with joy. Flipping conventional conceptions of wellness, a vision of health that comes from having wisdom and maintaining hope is offered. Personal stories including "First Day in My Prosthesis" and "The Night the Hair Fell Out" offer insight into the difficulties cancer patients face, while the stories "Retirement" and "Amazing Grace" provide a spiritual dimension to this suffering.

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An Uplifting Message.......2001-11-06

The book "Green Rubber Boots, A Joyful Journey to Wellness" is not only a book about surviving cancer. It has a larger message than that, the book illustrates how a positive outlook can help one overcome adversity. Through the stories in the book one can look at their own lives and see how a positive outlook could change their perception of the world.

Everyone can benefit!.......1999-09-09

You don't have to be suffering from cancer or a serious illness to enjoy and benefit from a reading of Green Rubber Boots. Through its sheer gentle wisdom and humor, the messages within speak to the human spirit within us all. In 1979 at age 42, Canton, Ohio native Kathleen Whitmer discovered that she had sarcoma cancer, a rare type of cancer comprising less than 3% of all cancers. Then an art professor at Kent State University's School of Art, Whitmer agreed to participate in research trials and experimental treatments at the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute in Bethseda, Maryland. Undergoing surgery with simultaneous radiation and chemotherapy treatments, Whitmer learned more than just to live with the disease: she discovered just how shallow and predictable her life was before being confronted with such a serious illness and surprisingly confesses "Cancer gave me life." GRB is a quick and delightful read, a collection of vignettes about her experiences at NIH. The author is quick to disclose her appreciation of government-funded studies such as those offered at NIH and NCI. The book is a marriage of sorts between her background as an artist and as a cancer survivor with resulting gentle wisdom tempered by humor, levity and a refreshing simplicity that echoes her observation "It's not easy being sick in a society that worships wellness." This book will be one that you will pass along from friend to friend. Cute illustrations, too!

Interesting Account of NIH experimental work on sarcoma.......1999-01-26

Recently, I heard Kathleen Whitmer speak and bought her book. It is an interesting account of her "journey back to wellness" courtesy of the experimental work done at the National Institutes of Health. We have her and the others who participated in the studies over the years to thank for some of the advances in the treatment of cancer that we have today. It is clear she is an amateur author, but her point and her sense of humor come across like she could be your neighbor feeding cookies to your own son in his Green Rubber Boots.

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