Honest Words
A Young Person’s Story and Guide to Cancer Survivorship
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One night in April I woke up during the graveyard shift. I couldn't breathe. I sat up quickly, gasping, choking and frantic for air. It felt like someone tied a rope around my neck and couldn't brake free. I called 911, the ambulance came immediately to my apartment and in minutes I was in the hospital. I was sick and I knew it. Nevertheless, I followed the emergency doctor's orders, took the prescription and went back to my apartment. A few hours later I got a call from the hospital. "Miss Liza? You need to come back to the hospital."
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About the Book
What are your memories of being a twenty-one-year-old? Some were in university, starting a job, in a relationship, moving away from home, enjoying the freedom of young adulthood, or figuring out the purpose of life. When I was twenty-one, I was fighting cancer. And now, a few years into survivorship, I am obliged to have many friends like you—whose futures will be forever changed by cancer—looking for honest words.
About the Author
Liza Ngenye is a lecturer at a university in Nairobi, Kenya. She has an undergraduate degree from Union College in Nebraska and a master’s degree from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. At the age of twenty-one she was diagnosed with cancer and now, years later, enjoys remission. Liza is an avid humanitarian and passionate about young people. She is a quintilingual flutist whose hobbies include traveling and influencing the world through social media.
Follow her on Instagram and Twitter: @lizangenye.
To contact her by email:
lizangenye@gmail.com.