Don't Die of Embarrassment: Life After Colostomy and Other Adventures

by Barbara Barrie

Book Overview

A remarkably candid and informative first-person account of surviving colon cancer and living after a colostomy. A helpful guide for anyone facing this life-altering surgery. Every year 70,000 people in the United States and Canada undergo colostomies. In 1994, Barbara Barrie became one of them. When the successful actress received the diagnosis of colorectal cancer, she knew that this was the greatest crisis she and her family would face. But it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684846241
• ISBN13: 9780684846248
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Important book

This book is an important book. We tend to ignore embarrassing symptoms. The story is tragic, but told honestly and with humor.