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Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
\"Carley Allison was an up-and-coming young figure skater and singer who died tragically at the age of 18 of a cancer so rare there were only seven cases in the world. In this book, you will come to know Carley in her own words and in the words of the people who knew and loved her. Award-winning author Alice Kuipers weaves the memories of Carley's friends, family, and boyfriend with the blog Carley kept throughout her journey, from the moment she was diagnosed until her final months of searching for treatment that would keep the disease at bay. Kuipers also recreates pivotal moments from Carley's point of view, acting as ventriloquist for a voice lost too young. This book is built around the words she lived by, both in sickness and in health. Above all, again and again, she summed up her philosophy in two words: always smile.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lessons from the sunflower
The beauty and resilience of the humble sunflower inspires an artist's life, work and commitment to helping others face their own challenges following a devastating cancer diagnosis. Lessons from the Sunflower is the inspiring story of one artist’s determination to make the most of a second go at life. Steven Csorba uses his experience as a survivor of a devastating illness, and the example of resilience and beauty in the struggle that he draws from a simple, common garden plant to help others understand how they too can overcome enormous challenges to healing, improve their overall health, discover a deeper purpose in life and ultimately find the happiness all of us yearn for. At 38, Steven Csorba was a well-known visual artist, and highly-paid, award-winning brand strategist and corporate communications consultant living in Edmonton when his life was suddenly upended by a chilling diagnosis. Radical surgery saved him, but it also dramatically altered his appearance. He had to relearn how to speak and swallow. He endured numerous reconstructive procedures and years of recovery and rehab. Newly divorced, unable to find work, and with three young sons to support, Csorba felt himself rapidly sliding into despair. That’s when he remembered something his late mother told him. Helping others is the key to finding true meaning in one’s life. Taking his mother’s advice to heart, Csorba resolved to use his own intimate experience with illness, the insights and knowledge he had absorbed as a professional communicator, and his brilliant creative gifts as a painter and graphic designer to support and mentor others going through difficult personal journeys. He has adopted the sunflower, that ungainly but hardy plant that just keeps climbing towards the light through stormy weather and drought alike, as an unlikely but powerful symbol of adaptability and resilience in the face of tremendous obstacles.
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My healing journey : Seven years with cancer
In 1991, Edmonton filmmaker Joe Viszmeg was diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer and told he would not live through the year. Four years later, Viszmeg completed the eloquent film In My Own Time - Diary of a Cancer Patient. In the subsequent three years, Viszmeg continued his courageous filmmaking. This new work, My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer, blends segments of the first film with the extraordinary story of how, with the support of his family, he survived the roller coaster of a deadly cancer until his death in the summer of 1999. A mixture of personal journals, often humorous narration, medical interviews and moving images.
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