Don't be bitter be better : from terminal to terrific, a mother's raw account of her son's aggressive cancer battle / Jennifer Webster
- Bib ID:
- 8665097
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- Book
- Author:
- Webster, Jennifer, author
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- National edeposit
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- National edeposit: Available online
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- Diamond Creek, Victoria : Ultimate World Publishing, 2022
- ©2022
- 1 online resource (unpaged) : colour illustrations.
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- text file EPUB 4.2MB
- ISBN:
- 9781922714763 (epub)
- Summary:
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"Hey, Mum, I'm at the hospital in Santiago and things are not looking good for me. It looks like I have a tumour on my spine." It is every mother's worst nightmare to receive a phone call that brings bad news about one of their children. Especially when their child is residing on the other side of the world. In Don't be Bitter be Better: From Terminal to Terrific, a Mother's Raw Account of Her Son's Aggressive Cancer Battle, Jennifer Webster tells the emotional story of her son's cancer diagnosis and his battle to survive. When Matthew, an active and healthy 24-year-old expat living his dream in South America suffered back pain and a loss of feeling which got progressively worse, he was shocked to learn he had a tumour that required immediate treatment. Faced with the risk of paraplegia, he returned home to Sydney to undergo surgery. After a painstaking wait, he was diagnosed with Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma (AFH), an extremely rare tumour that had previously only been seen in one other person in Australia. With no prescribed treatment plan to follow, medical teams were at first unclear on the best approach. For Jennifer, a clinical Naturopath and matriarch of a can-do family of six, it was time to swing into action. As they navigated their way through the myriad of specialists, surgeons, radiographers and hospitals, Jennifer was grateful for her knowledge of herbal medicine, naturopathy and nutrition, alongside her deep understanding of human anatomy." -- Publisher summary.
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