A story about living with breast cancer, a narrative that is brutally honest, straightforward, without pathos, but also sarcastic and humorous.
A book about a disease that every woman fears. But it can also be told with humour. A story about living with breast cancer, a narrative that is brutally honest, straightforward, without pathos, but also sarcastic and humorous. Such is the book by the publicist Andrea Kábelová called The Merry Swine with the Seagull and the Depression. With insight and often with black humour, he describes his personal story.
How did her loved ones react when she told them her diagnosis? How to talk about it, or rather not talk to others? What can the patient expect from the doctors and also from himself? The most important: how to live a "normal" life during and after this experience?
This readable book captures the author's essential insights and experiences that can help all women whose lives are turned upside down by serious illness. With them and their loved ones, Andrea Kábelová now shares her experiences, fears and hopes at that time with the OE without any exaggeration and without fear. He talks about his experience in a straightforward and humorous way. It hides nothing and spares no detail. And she can be pretty ironic and sharp sometimes. Just as her OE situation, and that of her deadly rival "seagull" OE, deserves.
– I started writing the book for my own personal use as a deeply intimate confession. I needed to get everything that happened to me out of my system. It was both my therapy and my cleansing," explains Andrea Kábelová, whose first book does not deny her long experience with writing, which must not only inform the reader truthfully, but also immediately captivate.
– The impetus for the publication came from Linda, a volunteer who helps cancer patients and disabled people. She told me: ‡This should be read by those who are equally ill or have someone ill in their family, because it might help them,' says Andrea Kábelová, originally a journalist by profession.
– And so I hope it really helps. Even if I just make them laugh," adds the author, who has been living with a breast cancer diagnosis since 2015.