Someone's Daughter

Jane Heath teaches psychology at Ryerson University.

Someone’s Daughter a moving, personal account of the author’s
experience with breast cancer. Though Crowie is clearly not a writer by
profession (awkwardness of expression and jarring attempts at humor are
occasionally distracting), she nonetheless poignantly communicates her
feelings of shock, disbelief, fear, grief, and anger, as the reader
follows her from the initial symptoms, through biopsy, diagnosis,
surgery, and recovery (she does not undergo chemotherapy or radiation
therapy). She also vividly portrays the reactions of others to the
disease; her sense of guilt and isolation; the pain; her fear of death;
and dealing with the cosmetic, sexual, and feminine self-concept issues
involved in life without a breast.

While individual reactions to a devastating event are unique, this book
provides some understanding of the emotions experienced by a woman
facing breast cancer.