METAMORPHOSiS - A Cancer Journey Through the Mystery of Life
Stronger Than Before Surviving Medical Tragedy and Discovering Life's Second Act
Cured of Cancer
Neeltje Elisabeth Langeveld (1954) worked at the Emma Children's Hospital where she was promoted to the position of Research Nurse in the Children's Cancer Department. From 1990 she trained in Clinical Epidemiology for Nurses at the AMC. In 1996 she started the research which is the subject of this dissertation. She will remain active as Research Nurse in the Children's Cancer Department when she has completed it. This dissertation focuses on aspects of the quality of life of young adults who have recovered from childhood cancer. Some fivehundred childhood cancer survivors, aged from 16 to 49 years, were asked to complete a questionnaire during their annual clinical check up at the 'Polikliniek Late Effecten Kindertumoren' (plek). The dissertation compares the results with a control group of subjects who had never suffered from cancer.
The Type Zero Diabetic
What if everything you thought you knew about diabetes was wrong?This isn't just another book about blood sugar-this is a call to arms. A radical reframe. A health revolution.In The Type Zero Diabetic, double board-certified physician and award-winning endocrinologist Dr. Mary Ann Martintakes you on her personal journey from prediabetic patient to hormone-hacking health disrupter. With honesty, grit, and zero sugar-coating, she reveals how lifestyle-not lifelong meds-is the most powerful prescription for preventing and reversing diabetes. This is for you if: You feel like your health is spiraling and you're stuck in the sick-care systemYou've been told diabetes is inevitable because of your family historyYou're exhausted, inflamed, stressed, or simply over itYou're ready to take back control-with real tools, not just pillsInside, you'll uncover: The real (and often ignored) root causes of diabetesHow to fork your way to freedom with food that healsWhy sleep, stress, and movement matter more than you thinkHerbal hacks, grocery lists, and survival guides to outsmart every obstacleA bold new identity: becoming a Type Zero-free from the grip of diabetes
The Type Zero Diabetic
What if everything you thought you knew about diabetes was wrong?This isn't just another book about blood sugar-this is a call to arms. A radical reframe. A health revolution.In The Type Zero Diabetic, double board-certified physician and award-winning endocrinologist Dr. Mary Ann Martintakes you on her personal journey from prediabetic patient to hormone-hacking health disrupter. With honesty, grit, and zero sugar-coating, she reveals how lifestyle-not lifelong meds-is the most powerful prescription for preventing and reversing diabetes. This is for you if: You feel like your health is spiraling and you're stuck in the sick-care systemYou've been told diabetes is inevitable because of your family historyYou're exhausted, inflamed, stressed, or simply over itYou're ready to take back control-with real tools, not just pills
Surviving the Hospital
Learn Lifesaving Strategies for Your Hospital Visit In Surviving the Hospital: Six Secrets Every Patient Should Know, Val Barschaw offers essential, inspiring, and easy-to-understand guidance to help you navigate the complex world of healthcare. Whether you're facing surgery or supporting a loved one through theirs, this book presents six actionable secrets aimed at ensuring you achieve the best possible outcome. Your health is invaluable, and these insights empower and prepare you for your journey. Having spent years in and out of hospitals due to her husband's need for a heart transplant, Barschaw shares her firsthand knowledge with a deep sense of empathy for those in similar situations. Don't leave your hospital experience to chance. Arm yourself with the wisdom in Surviving the Hospital and take control of your healthcare journey today.
May Contain Anxiety
A compassionate guide that teaches parents of children with food allergies how to mindfully manage anxiety and balance allergy safety with living fully.Parenting a child with food allergies or other allergic conditions means navigating a labyrinth of emotions, decisions, and challenges. In May Contain Anxiety, licensed therapist and allergy parent Tamara Hubbard provides practical guidance tailored to the millions of parents managing this reality. Through her own parenting experiences, clinical expertise, and the voices of other allergy parents, Hubbard offers a compassionate resource to help you thrive amid the overwhelm. This essential guide provides: - Insight into the emotional and psychological challenges of allergy parenting, including managing anxiety, dealing with uncertainty, and navigating developmental changes. - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) strategies for accepting discomfort, decreasing overwhelm, and mindfully parenting based on values, not anxiety.- Evidence-based techniques to address fear-driven thoughts and to cultivate awareness to manage allergy-related anxiety effectively. - Guidance on how to teach children age-appropriate skills to safely and responsibly manage their allergies. - Tips for establishing shared parenting goals and clear communication between co-parents to create consistent and effective allergy management routines. - Mindfulness-based exercises designed to support the whole family in navigating the emotional complexities of allergy management together. - Step-by-step strategies for creating a personalized mindful allergy parenting plan.Each chapter is enriched with relatable stories, real-world examples, and exercises designed to empower both you and your family. Whether you're grappling with an unexpected diagnosis or seeking balance after allergy-related challenges, this book will help you foster an encouraging, confident environment for your child and yourself.
Still Me
'A beautifully written, personal, empathetic and immensely practical book' - Dr Harry Barry, GP, author and mental health advocateThe essential toolkit to navigating dementia, supporting loved ones and caring for yourself Dementia can be devastating. Almost a million people are currently living with the disease in the UK alone and this is set to triple by 2050. With family members often providing care, navigating treatment can be overwhelming. But there is life after diagnosis. Still Me reframes the job of caring for someone with dementia as a partnership. Both you and your loved one deserve respect, support and the latest research to help you on your journey. Top neuroscientist and bestselling author Dr Sabina Brennan combines her professional knowledge with her personal experience of caring for her mother with dementia. With a human-rights approach that validates everyone's experience and dignity, she offers: - A self-care plan for care partners to cope with demands and optimise the caregiving experience- Practical advice on how to manage challenging symptoms, stimulate cognitive function and encourage a brain-healthy lifestyle- Evidence-based therapies to improve both you and your relative's quality of life. Dementia can steal many things, but it doesn't have to take away the simple pleasures of life. Shifting the focus from the disease to the person, Still Me reminds you that your relative is still there and that you, as a care partner, are just as important.
Stress Nation
A provocative deep dive into how technology is wrecking our hormones and our health--and the powerful tools you need to reclaim your well-being and thrive. Stress Nation provides answers to the lingering questions many people have about why they constantly feel tired, lonely, anxious, disconnected, and unwell, explaining in both humorous and poignant prose how the technology that was supposed to make our lives easier is actually one of the leading causes of chronic stress, dysregulated cortisol, and dangerously inadequate sleep. Equal parts commentary and practical guide, this book offers solutions that empower readers to manage their stress, improve their sleep, and implement scientifically supported methods to break the cycle of device addiction. In this book, readers will discover: How cortisol--the Master Hormone and your body's overworked alarm system--can become dangerously imbalanced, ruin your health, and leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. How Silicon Valley went for your attention instead of your well-being - and how that's warped the way we sleep, date, parent, and even think. Practical, empowering ways to unplug, reconnect, and start living like a human again - not a device-controlled zombie. Stress Nation is both your wake-up call and game plan that delivers on its promise of a clearer mind, healthier body, and better life.
The Book of Questions
GET INSPIRED BY YOUR OWN STORYIf you have a chronic illness, you know how difficult it is to get answers to your questions. Doctors don't have solutions. Simply explaining what's happening is a struggle.But what if the answers to your deepest questions were within you?As the newest addition to the iconic Book of Questions series, this book is an invitation to see and hear yourself-perhaps for the first time.When have you shown great courage and grit in overcoming something most people take for granted? Did you celebrate your triumph as much as it deserved?What stories do you tell yourself about your illness, and what purposes do they serve for you? Are there other stories that might better serve you?Explore difficult topics, deepen connections, and create your own path of meaning, growth, and fulfillment-whatever your health situation may be.
The 36-Hour Day
With over 3.5 million copies sold, the best-selling guide to understanding and caring for people with dementia is now redesigned, revised, and updated!For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the early stages to late-stage disease.This edition highlights the significant advances in diagnostic testing, treatment, and research that have occurred in recent years. Offering useful takeaway messages and informed by the latest practices in dementia care, this new edition has been thoroughly updated. It features - updated information on prevention, new diagnostic methods and criteria, and advances in medication therapy;- essential insights on everything from home care aides to useful apps to promising preventive techniques and therapies; and - practical advice for avoiding caregiver burnout--plus tips for when and how to get additional help.Like earlier editions, the eighth edition focuses on improving the lives of those with dementia and memory loss as well as those who love and care for them. The definitive guide to dementia care, The 36-Hour Day offers readers compassionate guidance and a ready resource for every step of the journey.
The Cancer Revolution
Founder and Medical Director of the Center for New Medicine and the Cancer Center for Healing Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy shares an integrative approach to preventing and treating cancer, with a practical program and strategies. "This book will empower you with knowledge that just might save your life or the life of a loved one" (Ty M. Bollinger, author of The Truth About Cancer). When it comes to cancer, conventional doctors are trained to treat their patients exclusively with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. These methods are grueling on the whole body--and they don't treat beyond the tumor or the cancer itself. The focus is on the disease, not the whole person--and because of this, the outcomes in conventional medicine can be bleak. But it doesn't have to be this way. Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy has developed a whole-person approach to treating cancer--and these treatments have helped thousands of patients through her Cancer Center for Healing. In The Cancer Revolution, Dr. Connealy shows you how to get to the root causes of cancer and the practical steps you can take to get back on the path to healing. Chemotherapy and radiation have their place in treatment, but in many cases, they are simply not enough, because cancer isn't caused by one thing, but by many different factors. All of these causes must be addressed, not just the tumor. The Cancer Revolution will equip you to make impactful, achievable lifestyle choices that fight the root of the disease, and that offer hope for recovery and a cancer-free life. Now fully revised and updated with the latest research and treatment protocols.
Human Rights in Dementia Care
Human rights are a key issue for all healthcare and social care practitioners, and almost every aspect of dementia care has a human rights dimension. How can we balance the individual's right for dignity, autonomy and privacy against the backdrop of time constraints, duty of care and limited resources? Can a person with dementia be supported to participate in decision making? Is assistive technology always empowering? What must it feel like to be denied a dementia- specific service because of one's age? This practice guide addresses these along with other critical questions, helping you to better understand the diverse and often complex dimensions of dementia caregiving. It provides a new framework to enable you to apply a human rights approach to real life situations, placing the person with dementia at the centre stage and keeping their dignity, independence, sense of purpose and quality of life at the fore. The book builds on person-centred principles, uses case studies to demonstrate theory and provides new analytical tools to support all those committed to best practice in dementia care.
36-Hour Day
With over 3.5 million copies sold, the best-selling guide to understanding and caring for people with dementia is now redesigned, revised, and updated!For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the early stages to late-stage disease.This edition highlights the significant advances in diagnostic testing, treatment, and research that have occurred in recent years. Offering useful takeaway messages and informed by the latest practices in dementia care, this new edition has been thoroughly updated. It features - updated information on prevention, new diagnostic methods and criteria, and advances in medication therapy;- essential insights on everything from home care aides to useful apps to promising preventive techniques and therapies; and - practical advice for avoiding caregiver burnout--plus tips for when and how to get additional help.Like earlier editions, the eighth edition focuses on improving the lives of those with dementia and memory loss as well as those who love and care for them. The definitive guide to dementia care, The 36-Hour Day offers readers compassionate guidance and a ready resource for every step of the journey.
No Mammo?
Every year, the month of October is decked out in pink, with countless posters calling on people to crusade against breast cancer through mammography. Why are public health officials, doctors, associations and laboratories so keen to do this? Are women really well informed about the risks they run by undergoing screening? And do the promised benefits really exist? Rachel Campergue was outraged by gynecologists' obstinacy in forcing her to undergo mammography. What she discovered was appalling. By infantilizing women, public authorities promote confusion between prevention and screening. Doctors do not have adequate knowledge to ensure that the consents they obtain from their patients are indeed "informed". As for the associations, they are the agents of a juicy business that benefits above all the manufacturers of health products. The conclusion of this abundant, precise and humorous work is without appeal: a cancer detected by mammography does not equal a life saved, and if you choose to have one every two years, do so with full knowledge of the facts.
You Can Be a Hero and Save Someone's Life
When Will is nine years old, he learns that his grandma has been diagnosed with colon cancer. This life changing event brings up fears, misunderstandings, and emotions in Will's mind. With the help of his parents, he navigates questions about how people get cancer, how it develops, and how it is treated while his grandma undergoes surgery and chemotherapy. But he also learns that colon cancer is preventable when his own parents opt to get checked for colon cancer. He decides to spread the word to children that they should get regular health check-ups when they are adults . . . and that they should spread the word of colon cancer prevention as well. Because it might save a life!A diagnosis of cancer is always an extraordinary medical challenge for the patient and all family members. In this book, Will is taught about the origin and the treatment options of colon cancer. But he also learns that he and everyone can play an active part in preventing this kind of cancer.
