Soon to be published..."A Bend in the Road"
“A bend in the road, a year’s journey through breast cancer,” by author Karen Kelly Boyce. In her book, she chronicles her experience as a breast cancer patient. Proceeds will benefit the research of two CINJ Physicians.
With their children now grown, retirement life for urban dwellers Karen Kelly Boyce and her husband Michael led to a rural adventure. They brought a 125-year-old farm in the Pine Barrens to renovate and set about breeding Nigerian Dwarf Goats. Karen fulfilled her dream of writing, becoming a published author. And then, her life took what she calls a bend in the road---breast cancer.
“It was the first mammogram I ever had, and I’m even an R.N,” Karen admits, “I only did it at my doctor’s insistence, and planned never to do it again. It was a ‘miracle’. It detected what turned out to be breast cancer at only stage one.”
Karen is now cancer free and has written a book about her breast cancer experience. “This book was much harder to write than my fiction,” she states, “but I wrote it in hopes it will help someone else going through the experience. I include things that helped me, nutrition, prayer, meditation, and some ways to promote humor.”
“When I started this book, I was sure it would be a comedy. Cancer can be so depressing. I wanted to take a different view. So many experiences have been downright funny. I wanted to share that, to make you laugh. A strange thing happened however, when I started to write my great comedy. I couldn’t do it...My journey through breast cancer was both joyful, and sad. I laughed and I cried. I lost faith and yet clung to hope. This was the whole truth, and nothing but the whole truth was worth telling…”
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