Standing at Water's Edge

As a PhD trained nurse, researcher, educator, and writer, Janice Post-White has four decades of experience in cancer, psychoneuroimmunology, and complementary medicine and integrative cancer care. She studies how the mind communicates with the body and writes about resiliency in illness from personal and professional experience. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Lana’i, Hawaii. Visit her website janicepostwhite.com.

Table of Contents


Preface

Introduction

Part I. The First Year: Getting Through

 1. January 9, 1997, 2:40 p.m.

 2. As the Seasons Change

 3. Diagnosis

 4. The Plan

 5. The Training

 6. The First Week

 7. Finding Our Way

 8. New Identities, New Perspectives

 9. Why Cancer? Why Now? Why Us?

10. Surviving

11. I Just Want to Live in the Moment

12. And How Is Mom?

13. Who Is This Child?

14. Finding Normal

15. Sailing Forward

Part II. Treatment Years 2–3: The New Normal

16. Expectations

17. Always on Call

18. Can’t Escape Cancer

19. Decisions, Decisions

20. The Last Lap

21. Celebrate!

Part III. The Decade After: Moving

22. Facing Fears

23. ­Wake-Up Call

24. Hawaii as Refuge

25. Reclaiming Childhood

26. Taking On

27. It’s Okay to Cry

28. Letting Go

29. Shadows of the Heart

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index