Six-Word Lessons for Surviving a Devastating Diagnosis: 100 Lessons to Help You Navigate a Healthcare Crisis

This book is a useful road map, of sorts, to the newly diagnosed patient and his or her family and friends to make their journey easier. The fewer surprises one has, the more confident and empowered one feels. Fear must be controlled as much as possible to help create a positive outcome. Six-Word Lessons for Surviving a Devastating Diagnosis offers practical tips to help calm fears, give hope, and to promote health and healing.

Written by Shirley Enebrad, author of Over the Rainbow Bridge: My son’s journey from here to Heaven, and Six Word Lessons on Coping With Grief. Shirley is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist whose son died from Leukemia. She is a cancer survivor and patient advocate.

Also written by Christine Hurley, author of Farkles and Giggles, the Heavenly Duo. Christine has a teenaged daughter, Brianna, who is a two-time cancer survivor. She loves nature, hiking, the Pacific Northwest and helping others.

Six-Word Lessons for Surviving a Devastating Diagnosis is organized into 10 easy-to-understand chapters:

1. Symptoms to Watch for and Why
2. You Get the Diagnosis, Now What?
3. Create Support for Your Entire Family
4. Know Your Treatment and Side Effects
5. Keep Family Drama Down, Spirits Up!
6. Finances, Fees, Forms, Fails and Fixes
7. You Must Strive to Stay Positive
8. Confront Conflicts Caused by Your Illness
9. Face Your Future and Ongoing Issues
​10. What if Treatment Fails to Cure?

Published by Pacelli Publishing

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