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Almost a Princess: My Life As a Two-Time Cancer Survivor
It's been said that cancer is a disease that steals away the feeling of perfection. Author Jane Loeb Rubin is all too familiar with this feeling. In Almost a Princess, she presents a collection of essays that document her twice-fought battle with cancer.
In this memoir, Rubin, a hospital administrator and two-time cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the dual perspectives of a patient and a health care professional. She reflects on her life growing up in a secular Jewish home with a hard-nosed but loving father, marrying her high school sweetheart at nineteen, raising three children as a divorced single parent, working in the health care field, remarrying in her forties, and becoming a grandmother-all with the wise insights gained from struggling with her own health challenges.
Almost a Princess discusses the coping strategies Rubin developed for herself, provides insight for other cancer patients and their families, and reflects on what it means to be a survivor. She communicates the importance of embracing what we are given each day, doing the best we can with it, and feeling the joy and fulfillment that comes with our past, present, and ongoing life stories.
In this memoir, Rubin, a hospital administrator and two-time cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the dual perspectives of a patient and a health care professional. She reflects on her life growing up in a secular Jewish home with a hard-nosed but loving father, marrying her high school sweetheart at nineteen, raising three children as a divorced single parent, working in the health care field, remarrying in her forties, and becoming a grandmother-all with the wise insights gained from struggling with her own health challenges.
Almost a Princess discusses the coping strategies Rubin developed for herself, provides insight for other cancer patients and their families, and reflects on what it means to be a survivor. She communicates the importance of embracing what we are given each day, doing the best we can with it, and feeling the joy and fulfillment that comes with our past, present, and ongoing life stories.
152 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2011
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April 12, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming, April 12, 2015
By KAREN INGALLS
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An informative, inspirational, amusing, and heart warming accounting of the author's journey facing two cancers. She introduces the reader to her family, how her childhood and upbringing, and her faith all of which helped and influenced how she has faced both cancers. She has a wonderful sense of humor, which helped pull her through her more difficult times.
As an ovarian cancer survivor I appreciated reading your book, Jane. Thank you.
February 1, 2023
Now as a fourteen year ovarian cancer survivor, I look ahead to the publication of my historical novels. In the Hands of Women is due out in May, 23 and Threadbare May, 24. Unimaginable breakthroughs in medicine have gotten me to this place.
Both books explore immigrant life in NYC in the late 1800's/early 1900's, the incredible determination needed to succeed, the plight of women - particular with reproductive rights (birth control was illegal!), and the limited healthcare available.
Both stories are hopeful as they follow their extraordinary protagonists.
Both books explore immigrant life in NYC in the late 1800's/early 1900's, the incredible determination needed to succeed, the plight of women - particular with reproductive rights (birth control was illegal!), and the limited healthcare available.
Both stories are hopeful as they follow their extraordinary protagonists.
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