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Let's face it, cancer sucks. This book provides real-life advice from real-life teens designed to help teens live with a parent who is fighting cancer.
One million American teenagers live with a parent who is fighting cancer. It's a hard blow for those already navigating high school, preparing for college, and becoming increasingly independent.
Author Maya Silver was 15 when her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. She and her dad, Marc, have combined their family's personal experience with advice from dozens of medical professionals and real stories from 100 teens—all going through the same thing Maya did.
The topic of cancer can be difficult to approach, but in a highly designed, engaging style, this book gives practical guidance that includes:
How to talk about the diagnosis (and what does diagnosis even mean, anyway?) The best outlets for stress (punching a wall is not a great one, but should it happen, there are instructions for a patch job) How to deal with friends (especially one the ones with 'pity eyes') Whether to tell the teachers and guidance counselors and what they should know (how not to get embarrassed in class) What happens in a therapy session and how to find a support group if you want one A special section for parents also gives tips on strategies for sharing the news and explaining cancer to a child, making sure your child doesn't become the parent, what to do if the outlook is grim, and tips for how to live life after cancer.
My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks allows teens to see that they are not alone. That no matter how rough things get, they will get through this difficult time. That everything they're feeling is ok. Essays from Gilda Radner's "Gilda's Club" annual contest are an especially poignant and moving testimony of how other teens dealt with their family's situation.
Praise for My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks:
"Wisely crafted into a wonderfully warm, engaging and informative book that reads like a chat with a group of friends with helpful advice from the experts." —Paula K. Rauch MD, Director of the Marjorie E. Korff Parenting At a Challenging Time Program
"A must read for parents, kids, teachers and medical staff who know anyone with cancer. You will learn something on every page." —Anna Gottlieb, MPA, Founder and CEO Gilda's Club Seattle
"This book is a 'must have' for oncologists, cancer treatment centers and families with teenagers." —Kathleen McCue, MA, LSW, CCLS, Director of the Children's Program at The Gathering Place, Cleveland, OH
"My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks provides a much-needed toolkit for teens coping with a parent's cancer." —Jane Saccaro, CEO of Camp Kesem, a camp for children who have a parent with cancer
Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 THE NEWS
1.1 A Hunch
1.2 Why Your Parents Told You the Way They Did
1.3 Why You Reacted the Way You Did
1.4 A Charged Word
Chapter 2 CANCER 101
2.1 The Big Question Marks
2.2 Treatments and Their Side Effects
2.3 The Cure: Why Isn't There One Yet?
2.4 True or False
2.5 Tell Me More!
Chapter 3 LET'S TALK: HOW TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY COMMUNICATION LINES WIDE OPEN
3.1 How Much Do You Want to Know?
3.2 What If You're Out of the Loop?
3.3 Reality Check: How Far in the Know Can You Go?
3.4 How to Keep Talking...Even If It's in Writing
Chapter 4 HOW THINGS WILL CHANGE DURING CANCER
4.1 Teenage Change Is Normal!
4.2 Cancer Sneaking Up on You
4.3 Changes to Expect
4.4 Changes in Your Parent
4.5 Siblings
Chapter 5 PARENTIFICATION
5.1 How It Happens
5.2 Catching a Break
5.3 Silence Isn't Golden
5.4 The Big Picture
Chapter 6 DEALING WITH STRESS
6.1 How to Beat the Cancer Blues
6.2 Exploring the Options
Chapter 7 RISKY BUSINESS
7.1 Former Bad Boys: Gary and Jose Turn It Around
7.2 Former Bad Girls: True Confessions
Chapter 8 THE POWER (AND THE LIMITS) OF OPTIMISM AND FAITH
8.1 Think Positive
8.2 Faith and Spirituality
Chapter 9 THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDS
9.1 What You Do (and Don't) Want from Your Friends
9.2 Girls Are from Mercury, Boys Are from Neptune
9.3 Accepting Help
9.4 Have Fun with Your Friends If You Can
9.5 But Can They Still Come Over?
9.6 Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, and More
9.7 Dealing with Friend Problems
9.8 New Friends
Chapter 10 SCHOOL DAZE
10.1 School = More Stress or a Place to Escape?
10.2 To Announce or Not to Announce
10.3 Telling the School
10.4 How the School Can Help
10.5 Dilemmas, Dilemmas
10.6 Keeping Grades Up
10.7 The Need to Achieve
10.8 Pulling a Bueller
Chapter 11 SEEKING SUPPORT
11.1 The Adult Who Knows You
11.2 Seeing a Therapist
11.3 Group Support
Chapter 12 FACING A DIRE PROGNOSIS
12.1 Facing the News
12.2 How Long Do We Have?
12.3 When the Bad News Isn't All Bad
12.4 Finding Hope When Things Seem Hopeless
12.5 Living for the Moment
12.6 A Different Kind of Hope
12.7 What If You Feel Closer to the Parent with Cancer?
12.8 Avoidance
12.9 Making Memories
Chapter 13 LOSING A PARENT TO CANCER
13.1 A Dictionary of Emotions
13.2 Mourning Doesn't Come with an Expiration Date
13.3 All Kinds of Questions
13.4 Life Goes On
13.5 Dealing with Your Emotions
13.6 School Can Be a Comfort...or a Pain
13.7 Music Can Make It Better
13.8 Staying Connected
Chapter 14 THE NEW NORMAL: LIFE AFTER CANCER
14.1 What Happens Now?
14.2 New Normal Hiccups and Surprises
14.3 Struggling in the Aftermath
14.4 Becoming an Activist
14.5 Same Old You
14.6 Silver Linings
Appendix A THE CAMP FOR KIDS COPING WITH A PARENT'S CANCER
Appendix B IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Appendix C THE PARENTS' GUIDE
Appendix D RESOURCES
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
