Shelly is a wife, mom, cake decorator and cancer survivor. She journals, very honestly, about her journey from discovery of the lump through treatment and recovery, right up through the implant of the prosthetic breasts.
The thing about this book is that is the most honest look into cancer and treatment that I have ever read. From the emotions, the side effects, the days that she cried and the days she wanted to hide from even her kids, you get the complete range of emotions.
Shelly holds nothing back about how things hurt, pain meds that didn't begin to touch the pain she experienced and being annoyed with people.
However, she also brings the good side of cancer, if you can call it that. The benefits that were given, the friends and family that stepped up and helped out with kids, housework, meals and yes, money.
There are several pages of resources for others battling cancer to draw from and use to help themselves and their families.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Shelly in person. She is as funny in person as she is in print. And she's just as honest.
I am confident that if this horrid disease should ever strike me, I will be prepared for what might happen to me.
Other books I have read have kind of sugar coated things and been a little bit like a cheerleader. Shelly holds nothing back, and that includes some language you might not like, but it's what she felt at the time. I don't begrudge her anything. It's her journey, not mine, so who am I to judge?
As she puts, quite bluntly, cancer can "F*ck off and die!" I lost my aunt to this disease and have seen many friends fight it. Spread the word about this book, and finding a cure!
Boob Envy can be purchased on Amazon.
