My Eye Fell Into the Soup - E-book - ePub

"I regret to inform you your pain is due to cancer, " said the doctor. Can there be words more chilling?My Eye Fell Into The Soup is a poignant story about living with cancer, stage-four intraductal breast cancer. Soon, the disease loomed larger every day. This memoir, via journal entries written as events unfolded, takes us through the process of coming to terms with the diagnosis and the struggle to survive and finally to adapt.
This book offers a glimpse in the life of a couple, much in love after three decades, facing the end of their lives together. My Eye Fell Into The Soup, a phrase derived from a dream written in Martha Blowen's journals, is a story of courage and of the deep plunge into the psyche when "real life" happens unexpectedly and intraductal breast cancer threatens. This is a book about how to live with cancer and how to die from it.
WHAT READERS HAVE SAID   ~ "...a courageous book."   ~ ".eloquent and most inspiring to see the public sharing of a life, love and loss. "   ~ ".direct, clear and sensitive writing."   ~ "The writing almost took my breath away!"   ~ "The relationships in this memoir is portrayed honestly and vividly." WHAT YOU'LL FINDIn My Eye Fell Into The Soup, you will also read about   ~ searching for a healer instead of a mere technician.   ~ making sense of changing family relationships necessitated by an advancing cancer.   ~ how to live with cancer as 50-50 doesn't work any more.   ~ experiencing what it felt like to be a talented artist, a woman dying of cancer, who now languishes without art making.   ~ appreciating the searing beauty of the life they once had and hope to have again.
But My Eye Fell Into The Soup is more than a rough ride through the country of illness that metastatic cancer brought this couple to. You will observe moving scenes:   ~ the fox following the hay thresher in the newly-tedded field, hunting for field mice.   ~ the glazed snow that reflects the light of the full moon.   ~ the octogenarian neighbor who needs help with daily life.   ~ a mother whose descent into dementia must be taken into account.   ~ young adult children just setting out in life who must now confront mortality.
These-and more-stories, told artfully and insightfully, will keep you reading long past when you should be asleep. Download My Eye Fell Into The Soup now.  The financial investment is small, and the satisfaction is great. Scroll to the top of this page and select the "buy" button.