COMING HOME from BREAST CANCERVILLE
- If you think the hardest time for a breast cancer survivor is during treatment
- If you think that when hair has started growing back a breast cancer survivor is back to normal
- If you want to understand how it feels not be a worthy survivor at all
- If you have a loved one who has gone through treatment and seems different and you have wondered why they’re not the “old” them
This book is for you…
IT’S A ROADTRIP OF EPIC PROPORTIONS
Coming Home from Breastcancerville gives voice to the reality many roadtrippers experience that they and their lives are anything but back to normal just because active treatment is over.
Readers will be left with the message that it’s okay not to be okay and that although there’s no returning to the home you left, finding a new home and a new normal is entirely possible. It’s informative and empowering.
Oh, and like any good road trip, there’s snapshots.
You’re welcome.
LIZ VAN VLIET
This book has been five years in the making. A big reason it took that long to finish it was the fear that people wouldn’t be able to pronounce my name.
For the record, it’s Van Vl-ie-t as in f-ee-t, as opposed to Vli-aye as in plie (you know, the ballerina position). And yes, I have seriously regretted taking it as a married name all those years ago. What the heck was wrong with ‘Pleasants’ anyway?
Exposing the pitfalls and obstacles on a potholed road to recovery
Road trips were a huge part of my childhood so using this as the basis for recounting the pitfalls and obstacles I’ve encountered trying to move forward from the moment of my breast cancer diagnosis made sense. There are indeed parallels that can be drawn from an orange VW Kombi hurtling along the highways of South Eastern Australia and the challenges of struggling towards anything that remotely resembles breast cancer survivorship.
It will make you laugh and make you cry but it will also help you to be a more informed onlooker and bystander to this same road trip undertaken by those you know and love.