接近离别：失意、癌症及其他不便之事后记

English | July 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011626 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 1.61 MB

A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir of losing both parents to cancer and the daring choices Gila Pfeffer made to avoid the same early demise

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put her at high risk of developing cancer herself. Determined to break the cycle of early death in her family, Gila decides to undergo an elective double mastectomy.

This memoir follows her journey as she becomes a reluctant expert on how to sit shiva, grows up, falls in love, and enters motherhood, before her life is derailed yet again. Her double mastectomy reveals cancer already growing in one breast.

After enduring eight rounds of chemo and the removal of her ovaries, she takes her last-ever dip in the mikvah waters as a bald, menopausal, thirty-five-year-old mother of four. With chutzpah honed over years of repeatedly surviving the worst, she manages to save her own life.

Drenched in Gila's dark humor, Nearly Departed is a story about thriving against the odds, committing to what's important, and leaving a better legacy than the one you inherited.

一本关于失去双亲乳腺癌，以及Gila Pfeffer如何做出大胆选择以避免早逝的讽刺、有趣而感人的自传 三十出头时，Gila Pfeffer 成为她家族中唯一健在的家庭成员，母亲因乳腺癌过世，父亲则死于结肠癌。一次简单的血检确认她携带了BRCA1基因——这使她面临较高的癌症风险。决心打破自己家族早逝的循环，Gila 决定进行一次可选的双乳切除手术。 这本书记录了她的旅程：从成为主持丧礼的遗愿专家开始，成长、恋爱直至育有四个孩子的阶段，在经历多次人生的曲折后又迎来新的挑战。她的双乳切除手术揭示出癌细胞已生长在她的一侧乳房中。 历经八轮化疗和卵巢切除术后，她以一头光头、更年期女性的身份迎来了最后一次到 mikvah 水中的沐浴仪式，当时她正是一位四岁孩子的母亲。凭借多年生存于最坏情况下的勇气与胆识，她在最后一刻挽救了自己的生命。 Gila Pfeffer 的自传充满了她的黑色幽默，讲述了人们如何在逆境中存活，并致力于留下比自己继承的更好的遗产。

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