Bald, Fat & Crazy: How I Beat Cancer While Pregnant with One Daughter and Adopting Another

by Stephanie Hosford

Overview

Stephanie Hosford has a big decision to make. For her 20-year high school reunion, how should she style her hair? Little does she know, in a few months it won't matter - she'll be bald. And huge. What woman wouldn't go a little crazy? After receiving a cancer diagnosis and a positive pregnancy test within days of each other, Stephanie, a happily married mother of one and in the midst of an international adoption, is suddenly fighting for her life, her children - and her sanity. Get ready to laugh, cry, gasp, and cheer on the ultimate 9-month roller coaster that takes us everywhere from the treadmill, to infusion rooms, and even across oceans. You will not forget this wild, true and ultimately satisfying story of love, motherhood and finding the inner strength we all hope is there when we need it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996307420
Publisher:	Nothing But the Truth Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	06/15/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	3 MB

Editorial Reviews

★ 05/15/2015
In 2007, at 37, Southern Californian Hosford discovers a small lump in her breast that turns out to be triple-negative breast cancer. Already the mother of a five-year-old son and having suffered a miscarriage and several years of infertility, she has been on a waiting list to adopt a Chinese orphan. And the tenderness she feels in her breasts has nothing to do with her illness; she's pregnant. The subtitle clearly sums up her story, but moving with Hosford and her husband, Grant, through diagnosis, rounds of tests, and the search for a surgeon and a hospital that will support her decision to keep the fetus during treatment, which will include chemotherapy, is well worth reading the additional 240-some pages. Hosford's experience is rare among breast cancer patients, but her warmth, wit, and way with a wig will resonate across the spectrum of those diagnosed and will bolster and encourage many who might feel the loss of control that comes with disease. The book opens and closes with Hosford's five-year follow-up appointment with her oncologist, and readers will cheer along with her. VERDICT Highly recommended. For all patient health collections.—Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal

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