IAHPC BOOK REVIEW

LEAN ON ME
Cancer through a carer’s eyes

Lorraine Kember

Lorraine Kember L. Kember Publications, 2003 130 pp ISBN 0646499696 Price (includes postage and handling) $AU28.50, $US29, £14, Euro 23 Available from L. Kember Publications, PO Box 70, Beechboro, Western Australia, 6063, Australia. Available at http://www.cancerthroughacarerseyes.jkwh.com/ Email lorakeet@iinet.net.au

This is one woman’s very moving story of caring for her husband for two years while he battled mesothelioma.

The emotional insights she shares with her diary would be a great comfort to anyone caring for someone with advanced cancer or any other terminal illness.

Her focus on his quality of life as she educates herself about the medical aspects of his care is quite remarkable, and would be inspirational to others in a similar situation and would empower them with realistic hope.

This little book should have a place on the shelf of any hospice or palliative care service, to be loaned out to the ones who care for our patients and whose struggles and problems are often hidden by those of the patient.

Strongly recommended.

Roger Woodruff
Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
(April 2004)

 

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