Live Longer, Live Larger,9781565928459

Live Longer, Live Larger

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ISBN13: 9781565928459
ISBN10: 1565928458
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Patient Centered Guides
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Summary

One out of every three people in the Western world face cancer. With the diagnosis comes a maelstrom of fears about the future and complex decisions about treatment. Live Longer, Live Larger is a handbook for people who want a supportive companion in response to cancer or other serious illness. It is based upon the experience and hard won wisdom of thousands of patients and families. Its stories, exercises and tools can help you survive a diagnosis of cancer - living longer, with a higher quality of life, regardless of prognosis or stage of disease.

Author Biography

William M. Buchholz, MD, Hematology and Oncology, and Susan W. Buchholz, Ph.D, Clinical Psychology, have worked with patients and families facing life-threatening illness since 1978

Table of Contents

A Letter to my Fellow Physicians ix
Preface xi
Part I: In the Beginning
Responding to Your Diagnosis
2(17)
A deeper decision
2(1)
Arriving at a diagnosis
3(2)
Responses to diagnosis
5(3)
Understanding the language
8(2)
Understanding how doctors think
10(3)
Diagnosing the person with cancer
13(6)
Defining Your Relationship with Cancer
19(16)
Understanding cancer
19(5)
Understanding the message of cancer
24(4)
The cancer/patient relationship
28(2)
Redefining the cancer/patient relationship
30(5)
Overcoming Fear
35(20)
Fear versus danger
35(1)
A history of fear
36(1)
Three components of fear
37(6)
What causes fear?
43(1)
Susceptibility to fear
43(3)
Five ways to overcome fear
46(9)
Living a Larger Life
55(21)
Why a new model
55(3)
Getting more living room
58(4)
Living longer
62(1)
Living better
63(5)
Enlarging meaning
68(2)
Remodeling your living room
70(6)
Part II: Choosing Treatment
Setting Goals
76(10)
What are your goals?
76(4)
Short-term versus long-term goals
80(3)
What do I want?
83(3)
Developing a Strategy
86(23)
What is strategy?
86(2)
Principles of strategy
88(5)
Knowing yourself
93(7)
Cancer's place in your life
100(4)
Considering your resources
104(5)
Making Action Plans
109(17)
Living as long as you can---within limits
109(3)
Taking risks for a big win
112(3)
Developing your medical team
115(4)
Emphasizing the best quality of life
119(3)
Using complementary treatments
122(4)
Overcoming Barriers to Treatment
126(8)
Acknowledging your sovereignty
126(3)
Needing to be right
129(1)
Searching for ultimate truth
130(4)
Part III: During Treatment
Maintaining a Positive Attitude
134(16)
Hope
134(5)
Fighting spirit
139(3)
Determination
142(4)
Faith
146(4)
Maintaining Your Quality of Life
150(15)
I do what I can
151(2)
Controlling symptoms
153(4)
Accentuate the positive
157(2)
Psychological and social quality of life
159(6)
Overcoming Fatigue
165(17)
Understanding fatigue
165(1)
Energy bank accounts
166(8)
Brain-fry
174(8)
Receiving Support
182(16)
The need for support
182(1)
Family support
183(7)
Medical support
190(4)
Support groups
194(4)
Part IV: Remission
In Remission
198(8)
Doctors' views of remission
199(3)
Patients' views of remission
202(2)
Remission as a threshold
204(2)
Using Your Second Chance
206(15)
I believe I'm cured
206(2)
Keep dancing
208(2)
Cleaning up my act
210(2)
A different kind of treatment
212(3)
Living forward
215(3)
Investing my time
218(3)
Living Comfortably with Uncertainty
221(19)
Practicing living with uncertainty
222(5)
Holding precious and fragile in a cup
227(5)
Life is beautiful
232(8)
Part V: Relapse
Back to Square Two
240(14)
But I did everything I was told!
240(3)
Confronting old stuff
243(3)
Making good decisions
246(5)
Desperate measures
251(3)
Crisis: Danger and Opportunity
254(13)
Accepting risk
254(4)
Balancing danger and opportunity
258(4)
Opportunity knocks softly
262(5)
Making Wise Choices
267(16)
Discovering the truth
268(5)
Fulfilling your heart's desire
273(4)
Exploring the shadow
277(6)
Your Last Chance for Today
283(11)
Last chance for today
283(5)
Resetting priorities
288(6)
Part VI: Endgame
Playing the Endgame to Win
294(12)
The endgame in chess
295(1)
The endgame in disease
295(3)
The strategy of the endgame
298(3)
Expressing your character
301(5)
Doing It My Way
306(15)
Wanting to feel in control
306(1)
Gaining trust in the future
307(2)
Getting relief from pain and symptoms
309(8)
Legal advance directives
317(1)
Creating a statement of your values
318(3)
Living Fully Until You Die
321(10)
Dispiritedness
322(2)
Quality of life
324(7)
On Being a Hero
331(15)
The hero's journey
331(1)
The warrior
332(3)
Different kinds of warriors
335(2)
Transformative sacrifice
337(3)
Different kinds of martyrs
340(1)
The spiritual path
341(3)
Different kinds of spiritual paths
344(2)
Family Matters
346(11)
Missed opportunities
347(2)
Family matters
349(4)
What is left behind
353(4)
A. Resources 357(4)
B. The Medical Uses of Hope 361(5)
C. Pain Control 366(3)
D. Preparing for a Medical Examination 369(1)
E. Values Statement 370(4)
F. A Legend of Sovereignty 374(2)
Notes 376(2)
Index 378

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