Patting the shark : a surfer's journey : learning to live well with cancer
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Patting the shark : a surfer's journey : learning to live well with cancer
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- Patting the shark : a surfer's journey : learning to live well with cancer
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- a surfer's journey : learning to live well with cancer
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- Tim Baker
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Tim Baker was living the dream: a bestselling and awardwinning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold down. Tim writes candidly and with a raw vulnerability about this perilous journey through chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and surgery, and his own determined lifestyle strategies to maintain mind, body and spirit. Happily, surfing provided one of his most powerful forms of therapy, and writing about his experiences has proven deeply cathartic. Patting The Shark documents Tim's efforts to navigate his way through the maze of conventional and supportive therapies meditation, diet, exercise, emotional support, counselling. Ultimately, it is a desperate plea for a more integrative approach to cancer care, treating the whole person and not just the cancer, allowing cancer patients a sense of empowerment and agency in charting their path through treatment. This is a story about facing your mortality, staring down your fears, and working out what really matters in life, when so many elements of your identity are stripped away
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- autobiography
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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