Goodbye, Cancer : A true story of survival
Overview
What does a mother do when doctors tell her that her child has only five months to live?
Does she accept the inevitable? Prepare to say goodbye? Or does she keep searching for a way forward-even when everyone else believes there is none?
Katerina was only six years old when a single diagnosis divided an ordinary family's life into before and after: a brain tumor.
What followed was a world of hospitals, treatments, surgeries, fear-and a fragile, stubborn hope that somehow refused to disappear. And then, for a while, it seemed they had won. Life began again. They had plans to make, reasons to laugh, and, finally, permission to believe the nightmare was behind them.
Years later, the nightmare returned.
The tumor was back. And this time, the doctors delivered the words no parent is ever prepared to hear:
"There is nothing more we can do."
Katerina's illness was considered terminal. According to the prognosis, she had five months to live.
Five months.
This is where the story everyone expected could have ended. Instead, it is where this book truly begins.
Her mother, Liudmila Gersten, refused to put a period where others had already put one. She searched relentlessly-reading late into the night, researching, contacting experts, knocking on doors, asking difficult questions, and reconsidering everything she thought she knew about health, nutrition, illness, and the remarkable possibilities of the human body.
Not because she knew she would win.
Because this was her daughter.
And as long as there was one road left unexplored, Liudmila was going to take it.
What happened next changed Katerina's life-and transformed her entire family forever.
GOODBYE, CANCER is not simply a story about illness.
It is the true story of a mother and daughter. Of fear and desperation, unexpected discoveries and impossible hope. Of falling down and getting back up. And of a mother's love that refused to measure her child's remaining life by someone else's calendar.
It is the story of what happens when the world tells you, "This is the end."
And you answer: "No. As long as my child is alive, this is not the end."
Sometimes the words "There is nothing more we can do" sound like the end of the story.
But sometimes, they mark the start of the most extraordinary chapter.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798506189473
- ISBN-10: 9798506189473
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: May 2021
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.25 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 232
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