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Because I'd Hate to Just Disappear : My Cancer, My Self, Our Story / by Donald E. Hardy with Heather K. Hardy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardy, Donald E., 1955- author.
- Hardy, Heather K. (Heather Kay), 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hardy, Donald E., 1955---Health.
- Hardy, Donald E.
- Linguists--United States--Biography.
- Linguists.
- Leukemia--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Leukemia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Illness, in the larger sense of mortality," Don Hardy writes, "is an inescapable shared trait among all living creatures, and we humans know about it, whether or not we want to talk about it." Because I'd Hate to Just Disappear is a portrait of a husband and wife, Don and Heather Hardy, thrown into the physical and emotional machinery of Don.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Not a Clue
- No Matter What It Is
- Don't Clone This
- Get the Fuck Out of My Way: I Have Cancer!
- Biopsy Surgery: Is Anything About This Going to Be Funny?
- Waking Up
- How to Talk to People About Your Cancer
- Keeping My Story Straight
- I'd Rather Not Know Anyway
- Quit That Looking at Me!
- Where Did I Last See It?
- The Evanescence of the Epidermis
- Make a Wish
- You're the Expert: So Listen to Me Carefully
- I'm Listening-for Now
- Welcome to Chemo 101: Any Questions?
- Nausea Treatment (to Be Used Only in the Event of an Emergency)
- Through the Fog to Gratitude
- How Are You? Great, Thanks, and You?
- Back So Soon?
- "Revelations" from the Infusion Room
- My Real Selves
- A New Year's Barbeque
- This Is Not What I Had Planned
- Existential Dread?
- TMI
- My Afterlife
- My Blind Spots
- Letting Go
- Fuck Cancer!
- Watching but Not Waiting
- On Not Being the Center of the Universe
- Afterward
- Research Interlude
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-943859-76-0
- OCLC:
- 1002302831
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