A long and winding road

By Nancy J. Robinson

Subjects: Biography, Health, Patients, Cancer, Family relationships, Breast

Description: "Nancy Robinson was 49 years old, married, and the mother of eight- and 10-year-old sons when she found a lump in her breast. There was no history of breast cancer in her predominantly female family and despite annual mammograms that proclaimed everything 'normal, ' she knew something was not quite right. After insisting on additional testing, Nancy received the call every woman dreads, the one that begins with, 'I'm sorry, ' and ends with, 'You have breast cancer.' This is the story of her family's personal journey through a disease they knew nothing about, and their effort to transition back to normal, knowing nothing in their lives would ever be the same"--Page 4 of cover.