Most of Me Surviving My Medical Meltdown

Summary: At age forty-three, Robyn Levy was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and, eight months later, with breast cancer. With irreverent and at times mordant humor, Most of Me chronicles Levy 's early, mysterious symptoms (a dragging left foot, a frozen left hand, and finally, a crash into "downward dead dog" position on the yoga mat), the devastating diagnosis, her subsequent discovery of two lumps in her breast (Little Lump and Big Blob), her mastectomy and oopherectomy (after which she discovers there is unfortunately no ovary fairy), and her life since then dealing with her diverse disease portf.

Record details

ISBN: 1553656334 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781553656333 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (305 p.)
Publisher: New York : Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Bad Old Days; 2. Breaking News is Hard to Do; 3. Ladies in Waning; 4. Sex and Dogs and Crowd Control; 5. Lost and Found; 6. Kissing My Cleavage Good-Bye; 7. In Search of Kick-Ass Clarity; 8. Travels with Dolores; 9. The Comeback Mama; 10. Some Don't Like it Hot.