When Hard Lilies Cry

Manal Suleiman Shurafa

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781685624439
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

When Hard Lilies Cry describes my 26 years journey battling two cancers and preventing two more.

Diagnosed with breast cancer. How do you deal with that? How do you wait for weeks not knowing whether you will live or die? How do you inform your children and raise them while going through treatment? How to cope with your family during chemo and radiotherapy? Can you accept the alteration of your figure after mastectomy? Will your husband leave you? How do you handle your family and friends desire to "help" you through it? What do you do when a family member or friend is diagnosed with cancer? How do you come to terms with it as a person of faith? Why me? Oh God, I don't deserve this! For a woman of science do you base your vital decisions on science or gut feeling not listening to your doctors' advice?

This book helped me and will guide you to evaluate ourselves deeply and understand the boundaries of our comfort zone. It will also be an inspiration and a benefit to you, your family, and friends in handling the tensions and complexities of life.

Writing this book made me and now you, more confident and empowered in facing and dealing with hard times or life-threatening situations. It helped me expand my comfort zone and will do for you too. I hope to offer you some guidance to address some of the challenges you are facing and provide comfort as much as possible.

This book helped me and will guide you to evaluate ourselves deeply and understand the boundaries of our comfort zone. It will also be an inspiration and a benefit to you, your family, and friends in handling the tensions and complexities of life. Writing this book made me and now you, more confident and empowered in facing and dealing with hard times or life-threatening situations. It helped me expand my comfort zone and will do for you too. I hope to offer some guidance to address some of the challenges you are facing and provide comfort as much as possible.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• When Hard Lilies Cry
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgment
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Cancer Has No Home Here
• Chapter 2 Don’t Tell Me What to Do
• Chapter 3 Facing My Worst Fear
• Chapter 4 The Dream
• Chapter 5 The Shock, I Have the Right to My Feelings
• Chapter 6 Young and Healthy but Has Cancer
• Chapter 7 Worse than Cancer
• Chapter 8 Coping with Cancer
• Chapter 9 Cancer Is Here to Stay
• Chapter 10 Am I Losing My Mind?
• Chapter 11 Defeated
• Chapter 12 The Stranger in My Mirror
• Chapter 13 Too Young to Have a Dungeon
• Chapter 14 Worse Than Dying
• Chapter 15 He Still Lives Inside Me
• Chapter 16 My First Step Toward Recovery
• Chapter 17 My Father’s Wise Words
• Chapter 18 The Real Tragedy
• Chapter 19 My Fight Is Never Over
• Chapter 20 My Stubbornness Saved My Life Twice
• Chapter 21 The Never-Ending Roller Coaster Ride
• Chapter 22 Standing Up to the Wind
• Chapter 23 Testing Our Faith and Strengthening Us TWICE
• Chapter 24 Being Prepared Never Makes It Easier
• Chapter 25 Never a Dull Moment, a Blessing, or a Blessing in Disguise
• Chapter 26 I Finally Did It
• Chapter 27 My Husband, My Best Friend
• Chapter 28 One Trip, Two Weddings
• Chapter 29 Coping with Life Challenges
• Chapter 30 Defeating Depression
• Chapter 31 Turning a New Leaf
• Chapter 32 My Son Leaving the Nest
• Chapter 33 Juggling Life’s Challenges: I Can Do It
• Chapter 34 Three Graduations in One Year
• Chapter 35 The Never-Ending Battle