Health Handbook: A Guide to Family Health
Author: Louise Tenney
Louise Tenney's Health Handbook is an essential reference if you are practicing natural health and healing in the home. Ideas for problems that occur from birth through adulthood are thoroughly explained with accompanying details on herbs and herbal combinations useful for daily living. This reference book also contains information on amino acids and nutritional supplements.
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Childhood Cancer: A Parent's Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers
Author: Honna Janes Hodder
Childhood Cancer, the most complete parent guide available, includes detailed and precise medical information about solid tumor childhood cancers, including neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, liver tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, and bone sarcomas. In addition, it offers day-to-day practical advice on how to cope with procedures, hospitalization, family and friends, school, social and financial issues, communication, feelings, and, if therapy is not successful, the difficult issues of death and bereavement.
Woven among the medical details and the practical advice are the voices of parents and children who have lived with cancer and its treatments. As many parents have already found, advice from "veteran" parents can be a lifeline.
Obtaining a basic understanding of topics such as medical terminology, how drugs work, common side effects of chemotherapy, and how to work more effectively with medical personnel can only improve the quality of life for the whole family suffering along with their child. Having parents describe their own emotional ups and downs, how they coped, and how they molded their family life around hospitalizations can be a tremendous comfort. Just knowing that there are other kids on chemotherapy who refuse to eat anything but tacos or who have frequent rages can make one feel less alone.
Parents who read this book will encounter medical facts simply explained, advice to ease their daily lives, and tools to be strong advocates for their child.
Booknews
This second edition of a reference for families of children with solid tumor cancers is updated with new information on treatments, including stem cell transplants, new chemotherapy drugs, and recent clinical trials, and contains updated resources for medical information, emotional support, and financial assistance. There is practical advice on coping with medical procedures, hospitalization, and school, family, work, and financial issues, and different types of treatment and side effects are explained. A pull-out medical record-keeper is included. The authors are parents of children diagnosed with cancer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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