The Red Devil: To Hell With Cancer-- And Back - Hardcover

Rich, Katherine Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609603213 ISBN 13: 9780609603215

Publisher: Crown Pub, 1999

Synopsis

A cancer survivor describes her ten-year ordeal with the disease, offering an inspirational portrait of a surreal world in which she struggled with illness, treatments, exhaustion, and the medical establishment while trying to live a normal life

About this title

About the Author

Katherine Russell Rich lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

l is a bold, wickedly funny tale of illness, joy, and the improbable triumph of love in the midst of despair.  <br><br>When Katherine Russell Rich was thirty-two, a newly divorced, high-powered magazine editor living a glamorous life in New York City, her ten-year (and still counting) ordeal with cancer began. Soon she was bald, scrambled, and living in two worlds simultaneously: the world of the ill, filled with treatments, exhaustion, and doctors as focused on avoiding malpractice suits as on healing; and the "normal" world, where dating, career, vacations, and 401(k) plans still matter.<br><br>Alternately wise and wise-cracking, Rich serves up vignettes from the surreal world only the ill know: the MS patient who crashes her support group, the alternative practitioner whose gifts come from extraterrestrials, the doctor who fires her patient, dating while bald, working without a brain, and smoking with cancer. Here is a woman who has been brought to her knees by disea

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609603213
• ISBN 13: 9780609603215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242