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These resources are available from the BCCA Library
250.712.3900 or 1.888.563.7773 local 6821 or www.bccancer.bc.ca
A new book for life beyond the end of active treatment, "Picking up the Pieces" is focused on practical, tangible things which you can do when treatment is over. There are charts and lists to help you get a picture of the recovery process, and very specific activities and tools (self-scans and action plans). Some relate to the medical aspects; some are introspective; some are reassuring while other are blunt and challenging.
The authors consistently remind us that these tools are to be used in a customized, individual approach to our own unique lives and needs. The book was developed to answer the real questions and needs of survivors. From shared and researched experience, these tools and steps have been assembled to give survivors something to do when treatment ends and many people ask "What can I do now?"
The section subtitles, which indicate that after treatments end, the recovery of a sense of self, of control, of meaning, and of the future are intrinsic to transitioning through the change. Each of these can be challenging changes after the trauma of cancer. By charting the course and giving the reader something realistic to do at each turn, the authors provide a genuinely useful tool for making it through to a new, unknown territory beyond cancer.
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BOOKS
Picking up the Pieces: Survivors moving forward after Cancer.
Magee, Sherri; Scalzo, Kathy, Vancouver, BC. Raincoast Books, 2006
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