Product Details

• Directors: Gerry Rogers
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: November 10, 2000
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0968808204
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,008 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Susan Love MD, Author Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book , Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book

An honest, straightforward picture of one woman’s treatment for breast cancer... Every woman would benefit from viewing it.

Product Description

“With startling honesty and immediacy, Newfoundland filmmaker Gerry Rogers began filming her ordeal with breast cancer the moment her hair started falling out from chemotherapy. You are with her at 4 in the morning when she expresses her deepest fears and her most intimate feelings; she takes you to her doctor’s appointments and family gatherings; you are in the chemo room as the toxic red liquid is pumped into her body; you are in the radiation chamber as she gets zapped with the equivalent of 10,000 chest x-rays; you join in the singing and magic of the most joyous Christmas party; you attend the pot-luck wig “hair-raiser” which she organizes in defiance of cancer; you laugh with her as she lies next to a bald-headed seal that rests on a local beach near her Carbonear home. You are there as Gerry lives life with her partner Peggy, who nurses, films, and loves her. You won’t watch this film, you will experience it – and you will never see the world quite the s! ame way again.”

Terre Nash Academy Award-Winning Director If You Love This Planet

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must see!, September 6, 2002

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S. Potts (Ashford, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Left Breast [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film is done with an honest simplicity that chronicles her journey through all the stages of treatment for breast cancer. It is funny, touching, sad, frightening, and very full of heart. For anyone facing chemo/radiation or just getting a diagnosis...or anyone supporting someone with breast cancer, this puts a face on a frightening and unknown process that lends realism and hope. The process for Gerry, her partner and the incredible involvement of her community was an inspiration for how people can come together and actively cope and heal when facing something so difficult.