Love you so much, a shared memoir is the story of Vicki and Karen, a mother and daughter writing in separate voices about the nearly five years in which they battle Vicki's ovarian cancer, plan a wedding, struggle with infertility, experience the joy of pregnancy, navigate the first and last days of marriage, begin and retire from careers, move across continents, visit each other as often as possible, and decide to write a book about it all. Along their journey, they discovered that life doesn't stop with a cancer diagnosis - sometimes it even accelerates, as theirs certainly did. More than thirty thousand women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year in North America and the UK alone. Any of them could have written about her cancer experience, and many have. What is unique about this book is that it is the shared story of a mother and daughter, each of them writing from her unique perspective about coping with cancer as life moves forward in unpredictable ways. This story is one of the lasting legacies of Vicki Greve, a woman who persevered through her battle against ovarian cancer with style and grace. It was written by women for women and their families, to which millions of women - and men - will relate. Proceeds will be donated in support of cancer research.
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By RachelA
Format:Kindle Edition
This incredibly honest and well-written book portrays the experience of battling ovarian cancer - from the perspective of the sufferer and her daughter. I found it both moving and, in many ways, inspiring and couldn't put the book down.
By Stayabreast
Format:Paperback
Although still within my first year of cancer, I have had little time to actually read anything, let alone sit down and concentrate on a whole book! I was pleased to pick up and take with me to the hospital Love You So Much: A Shared Memoir by Victoria Zacheis Greve and Karen Greve Young.
It's a gut wrenching memoir about two women, mother and daughter, Vicki and Karen and a four and a half year battle with Ovarian Cancer. Two different perspectives, mother to daughter, of cancer, various cancer treatments, the debilitating side effects, life with cancer and outside of it. Karen's family endures the grief of Vicki's circumstances, her ins and outs of facing one of only two options in cancer care: survival as is or survival with palliative (hers) care, which literally means to 'make comfortable'.
Her fight against this disease was documented through both of their eyes, taking readers through thick and thin, every day life, and most of their hurdles, struggles and triumphs, i.e. business school, maintaining normalcy and keeping a career, to engagaments to weddings, to pregnancy ordeals and births of a new generation.
It's a refreshing view of how cancer is. I was especially thrown by its approach only because I assumed I would be bowled over in tears and terrified of my own ordeal with Breast Cancer this past year. However, I felt as if I was walking side by side with Vicki all of the way to the end. From her relentless fight to stay alive to her quiet, peaceful end through the care of Hospice and her doting family, I felt reassured, less with fear, and no longer afraid of my own death.
written by www.stayabreast.co.uk
It's a gut wrenching memoir about two women, mother and daughter, Vicki and Karen and a four and a half year battle with Ovarian Cancer. Two different perspectives, mother to daughter, of cancer, various cancer treatments, the debilitating side effects, life with cancer and outside of it. Karen's family endures the grief of Vicki's circumstances, her ins and outs of facing one of only two options in cancer care: survival as is or survival with palliative (hers) care, which literally means to 'make comfortable'.
Her fight against this disease was documented through both of their eyes, taking readers through thick and thin, every day life, and most of their hurdles, struggles and triumphs, i.e. business school, maintaining normalcy and keeping a career, to engagaments to weddings, to pregnancy ordeals and births of a new generation.
It's a refreshing view of how cancer is. I was especially thrown by its approach only because I assumed I would be bowled over in tears and terrified of my own ordeal with Breast Cancer this past year. However, I felt as if I was walking side by side with Vicki all of the way to the end. From her relentless fight to stay alive to her quiet, peaceful end through the care of Hospice and her doting family, I felt reassured, less with fear, and no longer afraid of my own death.
written by www.stayabreast.co.uk
Format:Kindle Edition
When Karen Greve Young's mother was diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer in the spring of 1999, Karen and Vicki decided to write a memoir to help them focus on something other than just the disease.
Love You So Much is the newly published tribute to Vicki Greve seven years after she lost her battle for life, but not before she'd fought and won four and half `bonus years' that saw her witness both her children get married.
Sadly Vicki died only a few months before the birth of her much longed-for first grandchild.
During Vicki's illness, Karen found herself posted to London for work, and their memoir charts the difficulties and stresses that mother, daughter and the rest of the family experienced living so far apart and in different time zones, at such an emotionally traumatic time in all their lives.
Parts of the book are written by Karen and Vicki individually and the gaps are filled in with the emails they wrote to each other during this time and detailing Vicki's diagnoses, treatments and of course the inevitable symptoms associated with ovarian cancer.
Love You So Much does not gloss over the many unpleasant bits of the disease, but it is informative and Karen was clearly determined to research and investigate all aspects of Vicki's condition in order to get her the best and most effective treatments on offer, even if it meant questioning the decisions of her mother's doctors.
But it's not all doom and gloom and the passage of normal family life permeates throughout including some lovely anecdotes about Vicki's trips to London to see her daughter and their shared passion for Afternoon Teas in posh London hotels.
Love You So Much is a well-written and moving account of Vicki and Karen's relationship, and a fitting legacy to a woman who was clearly a wonderful wife and mother.
Love You So Much is the newly published tribute to Vicki Greve seven years after she lost her battle for life, but not before she'd fought and won four and half `bonus years' that saw her witness both her children get married.
Sadly Vicki died only a few months before the birth of her much longed-for first grandchild.
During Vicki's illness, Karen found herself posted to London for work, and their memoir charts the difficulties and stresses that mother, daughter and the rest of the family experienced living so far apart and in different time zones, at such an emotionally traumatic time in all their lives.
Parts of the book are written by Karen and Vicki individually and the gaps are filled in with the emails they wrote to each other during this time and detailing Vicki's diagnoses, treatments and of course the inevitable symptoms associated with ovarian cancer.
Love You So Much does not gloss over the many unpleasant bits of the disease, but it is informative and Karen was clearly determined to research and investigate all aspects of Vicki's condition in order to get her the best and most effective treatments on offer, even if it meant questioning the decisions of her mother's doctors.
But it's not all doom and gloom and the passage of normal family life permeates throughout including some lovely anecdotes about Vicki's trips to London to see her daughter and their shared passion for Afternoon Teas in posh London hotels.
Love You So Much is a well-written and moving account of Vicki and Karen's relationship, and a fitting legacy to a woman who was clearly a wonderful wife and mother.
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