The Year I Lost My Breasts...and Got Some New Ones

Book excerpt: In January, 2012, a year after her last mammogram, Paula Kaplan-Reiss was diagnosed with Stage 2 Breast Cancer. She made the decision to email her friends and family with weekly updates concerning her treatment, which morphed into a full-fledged unofficial blog. With wit and honesty, Paula takes the reader through chemo, hair loss, major surgery, reconstruction and radiation, and all the crazy thoughts, side effects and feelings which accompany her treatment. She introduces you to an amazing relationship with her oncologist and the rest of her top-notch medical team, including her compassionate breast surgeon and skilled plastic surgeon. But, most of all, she shows how a loving community of family and friends keeps her nurtured and entertained and makes her ordeal bearable.