A Year Lost, A Life Gained: Fighting Breast Cancer With Wit, Humor, Friends and a Perky Poodle

by Suzanne Dalton

Overview

Suzanne Dalton has accomplished much in her life—she is an artist, writer, actor, web designer, and program manager. The one undertaking for which she did not sign up was breast cancer. In her new memoir, humor guides Suzanne through difficult decisions about treatments, surgeries, and reconstruction. Her story, told through witty letters to friends, includes a party before surgery, a zany poodle, and refusal to let cancer define her. A Year Lost, A Life Gained: Fighting Breast Cancer With Wit, Humor, Friends and a Perky Poodle is at its heart a beautifully-told story and a guide intended to aid anyone diagnosed with cancer whether they've completed the journey or are just embarking upon the path.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999877807
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	04/30/2018
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Dalton graduated from Wayne State University with a BS in geology. She studied fine art, industrial design, watercolor, and photography at College for Creative Studies, and has a TEFL diploma and a Master Certificate in Applied Project Management from Villanova University. Suzanne wrote the humorous short story series Poodle Possessed for Hoflin Publishing's bimonthly international publication, Poodle Review, for 14 years. A Year Lost, A Life Gained is Suzanne's first book. She is presently working on her next, a book of travel, adventure, and poodles. Suzanne is currently a program manager of software development at an automotive company in Detroit, where she lives with her husband and her standard poodle, American Canadian Champion Ascot Rosebar Double Diaka CGC, a.k.a. "Fletcher," but being such an accomplished poodle, of course, he prefers "Mr. Fletcher."

Table of Contents

Preface ix

The Discover

1 The Big Slice 3

2 Biopsy 5

3 The Result 7

4 The Next Step 9

5 The Decision 11

6 The Size of the Cup 15

7 The Sweet & Bitter 19

8 The Lollipop & the Kick 25

9 The Flap & Three Spot 31

10 The Mashing Table 35

11 The Mashing Table - Correction! 37

12 The Other Side 39

13 The Date & the Result 45

14 The Lucky Break 47

15 Can't Rebuild Rome in a Day 51

Slice and Dice

16 The Best News Ever! 57

17 Trilogy; The Pre-Op 59

18 Trilogy: The Surgery 63

19 Trilogy: R&R 69

20 The Long Journey Home 75

21 The Scar Tissue 81

22 The Expandable Clot 87

23 The Big Stretch 91

24 The Verdict 97

23 The Big Break 103

26 The Raw Nerve 109

27 The Countdown 115

28 The Capper 121

Reconstruction

29 The Great Exchange 127

30 THE NEXT DAY 131

31 The Reality 135

32 The Unveiling 137

33 The Progress Report - Hanging In There 145

34 The Low Cut 149

35 The Balancing Act 155

36 East Healing & Water Balloons 159

37 A Nose on a Pace 165

38 The Back Fat & the Rose Tattoo 171

Reflection

39 The Face in the Mirror 179

Acknowledgments 183

Biography 187