
Bald Is Better with Earrings
A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
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Andrea Hutton
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Andrea Hutton
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For the one in eight women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, a warm, practical, relatable handbook that dispels the terror and takes you step by step through the process, from diagnosis to posttreatment.
When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted to know everything. She read books voraciously, devoured articles, surfed websites, and talked to everyone she knew. But nothing she found prepared her for what the surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation would feel like. Were there tricks for easing pain and discomfort? What was fatigue, and how would it affect her? When people gave her hugs, could they tell she was wearing prostheses? What Hutton wanted was something she could not find: a clear how-to guide for the cancer girl she had become.
Bald Is Better with Earrings is Andrea Hutton's answer - a straightforward handbook, leavened with humor and inspiration, to shepherd women diagnosed with breast cancer through the experience. Warm and down to earth, Hutton explains what to expect and walks the listener through the intensely emotional process of testing, telling loved ones, surgery, chemo, losing hair and shaving one's head, being bald, and radiation treatments. From tricks for treating skin during radiation and keeping track of meds to tips for tying headscarves and preventing lymphedema, Hutton offers a wealth of invaluable advice organized into practical top-five tips for each stage of treatment and beyond. Compassionate, friendly, and shaped by Hutton's firsthand knowledge, Bald Is Better with Earrings is the comprehensive, essential companion for anyone dealing with breast cancer from someone who's been there.
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- F. Payne
- 12-28-22
More than a story, this is a personal guide
If you want someone to give you the real details about what to expect thru a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, she does it here. It's like having a girlfriend who's straightforward and truthful, sitting you down and talking you thru something that no one else can truly understand, from a to z. I listened to several chapters many times, and now use this as my resource guide as I go thru my own journey.
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- Suzanne K
- 09-12-18
So helpful!
Thank you Andrea Hutton. So helpful!! Relevant. Interesting. Honest. Funny. Worth while to anyone who wants to take some of the mystery out of diagnosis and treatment. Very validating, even since every journey/experience is different.
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- Kaye Ballard Cannon
- 09-01-23
I will be recommending to friends
I’m currently 6 weeks post-bilateral mastectomy and about to start chemotherapy. Though Andrea’s journey is different from my journey so far (every woman’s journey will be so different!) there were lots of great take-always:
1) take your port info to every infusion, 2) walk for at least 15mins right after chemo and then every day if possible, 3) speak up for yourself re staff. Those are just a few. I won’t be having radiation, but I’m sure the info there will be helpful for those who will. Thank you, Andrea. Oh, and I enjoyed your reading of your book!
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