Recent Review of Busting Loose--reprinted with permission

Busting Loose Hit Me Like a Bombshell
by Jane Phillipshttp://www.booksunlimited.ie/Books/Swanson-Cheryl/Busting-Loose/9781934841747.htm


Most helpful book I read on breast cancer, bar none. When I was diagnosed, so many things did not make sense—until I read this book. They now make sense

Briefly, in addition to cancer, you have to deal with an information overload that is unbelievable. You have to sift through that information and make huge decisions, decisions that could radically change your future and even save your life. And you can’t give the responsibility up to your doctors—not unless you really don’t care if you keep your breasts, or even keep on living. Deep down, I was completely terrified and at a loss how to help myself. I virtually gave up because my doctors didn’t seem to care.

The book showed me how to take control, get answers to my questions, force the hospital to schedule tests and surgery rapidly. (I even browbeat my insurers into paying for a procedure they had refused to cover! Yes!) There are eighty chapters in this book. It doesn’t cover just medical information, but family relationships, work problems, diet, sex—all the things breast cancer can effect.

Some of the chapters in Busting Loose I felt I could have written because they were so close to my experience. The book tells the story of the author’s battle not to let cancer become a roadblock. In her case, she went right ahead with her dreams, adopting a little girl from Guatemala and becoming a suspense novelist. My life is very different, but I could relate and her wisdom fit my situation just as well. You want inspiration, you’ll find it here. I recommend this to all women recently diagnoses, as well as any survivor interested in staying healthy. You’re going to find information you will not read anywhere else.