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From This Moment On: A Guide for Those Recently Diagnosed with Cancer

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Arlene, wherever you are - you have written a wonderful book for cancer patients and survivors! Upbeat, pithy, quirky and right on, this collection will make you laugh and muster the strength to deal with whatever is on your plate. Inspiring and funny -- heartily recommended by our staff of clinical oncology social workers.

This book has changed my life. I received my diagnosis less than a week ago and yesterday, while I was in the library looking for reading material for after surgery, this book leapt out of the shelves to me. It's simple and comprehensive, and easy to read. It's just what you need to begin recovering from the shock of your diagnosis. More importantly, it gives you HOPE. My husband will read it next because he needs to understand what is in this book that will become my constant companion in the months to come.

I was diagnosed with cancer less than a year ago and just read Arlene Cotter's book recently. At first I wondered how useful it could be, given that many of the book's affirmations have probably already occurred to many cancer patients. Then I remembered how I felt shortly after being diagnosed and realized how useful it would have been to have a book like this, filled with nonjudgemental expressions of support for the choices a cancer patient makes in living his or her own life.

For that reason, I think From This Moment On may be most useful to those who are newly diagnosed. Also, I think it would be very valuable for friends and family members of cancer patients, who often feel more helpless than the patient and could use a "window" into a cancer patient's feelings.

But I think the real affirmation has nothing to do with what's between the book's covers. Arlene Cotter was diagnosed with cancer; she then had the idea for this book, created it, and published it. That may be the ultimate inspiration here.

I read this book after a diagnosis of inoperable brain cancer at the age of 22. It gave me strength and courage to face my fears & continue living my life. Over a year later, I still flip through it when I feel like nobody understands how much cancer changes the lives it touches. This book is incredibly easy to read because of its bite-size words of wisdom - no endless paragraphs of text! Thank you Arlene for your honesty about the difficult times that we face & how to keep living despite them.

I found this book to be a tremendous help to me, as I was struggling to come to terms with my own Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma diagnosis. Its entries are brief, pithy, and flow forth from real patients' experiences. This is by no means a "heavy" book - it's the sort of book you can dip into, little by little, as you feel up to it. The graphic design is a bit unusual, but effective. What this book does so very well is to provide straight, no-nonsense advice about getting through what is, by all accounts, the most difficult time for cancer survivors: the days immediately after diagnosis. Hearing the words, "You have cancer" is not the end of the world - though many of us suspect it just may be, at the time we first hear them. This book will help you realize a cancer diagnosis is NOT the end of the world, that you're not alone, and that there are lots of resources out there to help you.

I read this fantastic book which helped me cope with my recently diagnosed cancer. It is a simple yet powerful book to read with wonderful illustrations. It is a spiritual as well as an inspirational book to peruse. I keep it close to me and read passages from it daily. I recommend this book to anyone who has a life threatening disease.

This is one of the most moving and important books I have read since I was diagnosed with cancer. Don't dismiss it as doom and gloom, it isn't. It has some humor and a lot of practical advice and ways of looking at things. I was lucky to find this book as early in my illness as I did and have given several copies away. Three and a half years later I still pull it out and read parts of it that pertain to me. My cancer is terminal, though I may live a couple more years. This is an important book for anyone with and kind and stage of cancer.

I read this fantastic book which helped me cope with my recently diagnosed cancer. It is a simple book to read with wonderful illustrations. It is a spiritual as well as an inspirational book to read. I keep it close to me and read passages from it daily. I recommend this book to anyone who has a life threatening disease.