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Life, with Cancer L ife, w ith Cancer The Lauren Terrazzano Story Frank Terrazzano & Paul Lonardo Foreword by Anna Quindlen Health Communications, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Florida www.hcibooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data © 2012 Frank Terrazzano and Paul Lonardo ISBN 13: 978-07573-1663-0 ISBN 10: 0-7573-1663-8 ISBN 13: 978-07573-1664-7 (e-book) ISBN 10: 0-7573-1664-6 (e-book) All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publica- tion may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. HCI, its logos, and marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc. 3201 S.W. 15th Street Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-8190 Cover image ©Veronica Marino Cover design by Larissa Hise Henoch Interior design by Lawna Patterson Oldfield Interior formatting by Dawn Von Strolley Grove Quod in vita facimus in aeternum resonat “What we do in life echoes in eternity” —Cicero Contents Acknowledgments ..................................................................................ix Foreword by Anna Quindlen .............................................................xiii Introduction .............................................................................................1 One Dark Thoughts in a Season of Light ................................00 Two To the Rescue........................................................................00 Three Cancer Rises A.mid Smoke and Mirrors ........................00 Four What Cancer Gives: Anger, Not Wisdom .......................00 Five Young Adults Find Common Ground ..............................00 Six Small Gestures Can Be a Huge Booster .........................00 Seven Feeling on Top of Everything, Briefly .............................00 Eight Measureless Gratitude to Unsung Caregivers ...............00 Nine Secrets from the Alternate Universe ...............................00 vii viii Contents Ten Lung Cancer: Overlooked, Underfunded .......................00 Eleven Focusing on Present Matters the Most ...........................00 Twelve No Time for Last-Minute Commiserators .......................00 Acknowledgments Losing a child to the dread disease of cancer is something you can never, ever prepare for as a parent. Lauren, our only child, was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of thirty-six, and our world as we knew it came to an end. We would have less than three more years together, and even that did not prepare her mom, Ginny, and me for the enormity of the grief we would experience when her courageous battle was lost. Trying to come to terms with our loss inspired me to write this book about a beautiful young lady who believed that the “pen is mightier than the sword.” Lauren chose to use her pen as a light to shine into dark places, exposing society’s many shortcomings. Through her writing, Lauren championed the cause for abused chil- dren, the elderly, and the homeless in an attempt to make life better for all; she truly became a voice for the voiceless. A most loving and caring daughter, her passing has left a void in our life that will never be filled. We desperately want to understand the reason that a beautiful, healthy, and talented young lady who was not a heavy smoker came to contract this scourge of a disease. Our ix
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