Warrior Mother A Memoir of Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals That Heal

Name: Warrior Mother A Memoir of Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals That Heal
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ISBN: 9781938314469

ISBN-10: 1938314468

ISBN-13: 9781938314469

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sheila K. Collins

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Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother’s fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. When Sheila Collins’s best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to accompany her through what turned out to be the last fourteen days of her life, she didn’t know that the experience was preparing her for what lay ahead with her own children. In the years that followed, Collins had to face both her son’s diagnosis with AIDS and her daughter’s diagnosis with breast cancer. Warrior Mother documents how she faces these challenges and the issues accompanying them—from…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 8/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.60" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Preface





Coming Out


Getting to Yes


Support for a Motherï¿½s Yes


Initiation


Medicine Women


Life upon the Wicked Stage


To Health


Spring Shadows


The Dying Room


Celebrations of Ken





Reacting to the News


Dreams and the Kindness of Strangers


Preparations for a Healing


To Brazil


Beyond the Ends of the Earth


Extremely High-Tech Medicine


Bone Marrow Summer


One Hundred Days Plus


Dancing on the Edge


Saying Good-Bye


Midwifery Again


Ashes


The Grandmother Ceremony


After Words