Almost a Princess: My Life as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor - Softcover

Rubin, Jane Loeb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936236834 ISBN 13: 9781936236831

Publisher: iUniverse Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Loeb Rubin is director of neuroscience for Atlantic Health System. She embarked on this memoir to share her experience as a two-time cancer survivor from the dual perspectives of a patient and a health care professional. Rubin lives in Northern New Jersey, with her husband, David.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936236834
• ISBN 13: 9781936236831
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152