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Kimberley Rideout

Goodreads Author

Born

in Canada

Genre

Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

My experiences as I dealt with breast cancer.

Member Since

April 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/kimberleyrideout

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On March 14, 2012, Kim Rideout heard the words that one in every nine women will hear in her lifetime: she had breast cancer.
Taken To My Knees is a candid memoir written from the daily journals she kept as she underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments to deal with the IDC Stage IIB cancer she had been diagnosed with.
Rideout recounts how scared she was in those early days with a brutal honesty. She takes her audience along with her as she makes daily attempts to reconcile her “new normal” with the gut-wrenching fear that a cancer diagnosis brings.
In sharing her story, Rideout demonstrates how important it is to be surrounded with love, family, and friendship and how a positive attitude can be just as important in the heali ...more