The Heroics of Falling Apart: One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey

What a special book this is! My dear friend recently had a mastectomy. I wondered whether this book would be helpful to her or depressing. Once I started reading The Heroics of Falling Apart, I couldn't put it down. Each section gave me more insight into the world of coping with cancer. I learned about the torturous journey of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. I was grateful to have Judy's perspective as the patient and also Dan's point of view as the primary caregiver. A million thanks to the authors for sharing the intimate details of their experience. They provide a role model while underscoring that the only "right" decisions are those that are right for the patient. I know that my friend will benefit from reading this fascinating, inspirational story. I've put my copy in the lending library of my psychotherapy office and I expect it will get a lot of use. This is a book that belongs in every woman's library. Judy K. Underwood, Ph.D. Author of DYING: Finding Comfort and Guidance in a Story of a Peaceful Passing, [...]

A simple "thank you" would not be enough. Being "of age" and over 50 now, I have more than a number of friends who are experiencing breast cancer on many levels. This book and the emotional wallop it packs into every chapter provides a rare glimpse into the lives of a couple facing the disease. I have now gifted this book on several occasions to friends who are experiencing breast cancer. Although it may not be "appropriately timed" when given to those who are at the very beginning of learning about their own disease, it is a most wonderful resource for those who are further along the path of dealing and healing.

For anybody who has ever fallen apart -- or contemplated falling apart -- or just wondered what it would feel like to fall apart -- heroically or UNheroically-- and yet emerge from the triggering crises with one's body, mind and spirit not only still intact, but much stronger for it, Judy and Dan Gordon's book, The heroics of falling apart... One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey, is a MUST read. The roller coaster ride from hell that this amazing very much in love married couple took TOGETHER, but who wrote about it as if they were riding in separate cars, will make you feel not only as if you are alternately riding with each of them, but grateful that you were given the opportunity to do it without actually having to SIT in either of those cars. Grateful AND blessed!