"Speak Slow I've Had Chemo" An A - Z Guide to Surviving Breast Cancer

by Susan LeBlanc

Overview

An alphabet Patient Handbook utilized for the "need to knows" of breast cancer in a colorful presentation utilizing bold messages and clip art for visual imagery and healing.

It addresses the psychosocial aspects a woman encounters in her life crisis with breast cancer. Serious take action issues as fertility that must be addressed before medical treatment are critical before a treatment plan is in place!

1 This material is presented patient to patient in a less medicinal way to create medical awareness.

2 Discuss the "unmentionables" as sexuality, chemo brain, lymphedema, hair loss, fertility, etc providing solutions to improve body image and increase self esteem.

3 Promote healing to overcome adversities

A wonderful patient handbook to be utilized with simplified messages by a survivor with a bold message! "Speak Slow I've had Chemo" An A - Z Guide to Surviving Breast Cancer makes a wonderful medical setting book, gift for a patient, caregiver, or used for education for nursing students and other med students, survivor groups, gynecology, etc

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148662686
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	10/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

From a glamorous pharmaceutical sales career once specializing in female healthcare to being rejected in the food stamp line, bald and under chemo - Susan LeBlanc is instrumental in capturing menopausal audiences, previvors, cancer survivors, and delicate divas by sharing her tumultuous ride through life. The unique trait she carries and delivers to audiences is passion and a unwavering desire to keep thriving through unusual adversities such as having a parent missing never to be found. Susan LeBlanc's Mission Statement is to "Create Medical Awareness - In a less medicinal way! She is a stellar performer, with theatrical flair inspiring others to survive their adversities. Susan is the creator of "Gutzky Girl" a role model, an oncology website, and a patient handbook instructing patients on literature this is the start of prevention and wellness: she proclaims. Her battle with breast cancer was not an ending but a new beginning following a passion for educating others with a Gutzky Girl mentality and breast cancer burlesque seminars that are engaging and interactive! Her goal is to have her handbook, "Speak Slow I've had Chemo" An A - Z Guide to Surviving Breast Cancer in the hands of many breast cancer patients as well as young women for prevention and wellness.

Susan is a native of Louisiana, and was formally educated at Southeastern Louisiana University with a BA in Communications. Her training in pharmacology was through major pharmaceutical companies as Wyeth Ayerst, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Abott Labs, Purdue and PDI. She was once asked if her passion was in theatrics during intense pharmacology training as she sang songs in her drug details! Her oncology experience was not the journey chosen but from this moment on a new career path has evolved into Fun, Direct, Advice. Her mentoring of writing and speaking is through the National Speakers Association of New Orleans. In addition, she inherited talents as her parents' playful, musical gifts, charm and wittiness for presentations skills.

If we can make cancer approachable and fun we can attract healthy women and men to understanding its' causes and scare tactics to create change in daily living. No one wants or chooses to start over in life but at least for some it is an option! An opportunity to live, learn, and grow at a slower pace but healthier place for positive life skills perhaps we were not aware of before.