Bald Bird: Surviving Breast Cancer

By Kaye Howarth

Hello!
My name is Kaye Howarth.
Newly diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the age of 34, recently re-married with two young children and a menagerie of animals, decided to write a Journal-about the trials and tribulations that this rollercoaster diagnosis brought to me, my family, neighbours and Work Colleagues.

I hope this book might be helpful if you are beginning this journey, hopefully, be of some small comfort, to know that I'm with them through their journey, perhaps even raise a smile or two along the way!

I am beginning to have a relationship with my new lump.
My fingers have taken on an obsession.
Just like a jealous partner, they keep checking that you are there.
But, of course, you're still there, aren't you, Bert? One hopes that, as with an old boyfriend who's bugged the crap out of you, has hopefully picked up the vibes that he's not wanted anymore; has used incentive left, gone disappeared, just before the nasty, messy, screaming stage.
But you're still here.
I shall call you "Breast Lump" Bert, seeing we are now- so to speak attached through my left breast. You know this though, Bert, I hate you, and I hate all you've put me through.
Weirdly, though, Bert, you have made me pull my life together; I appreciate the new insight you gave me into how precious my life is. Never again will I take for granted the sweet smell of my children's skin. The warmth of a hug with my husband, laughing with my mother on the phone, chuckling at naughty jokes emails sent by my best friend Annie, or the human kindness of the people surrounding me.
So Bert, it's just you and me. Let the battle begin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08C75C574
• ISBN13: 9798662933149
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"