Editorial Review:

Practical tips and hope for cancer sufferers and their families are offered in this heart-warming book that contends life is a journey and each day can be filled with joy. Flipping conventional conceptions of wellness, a vision of health that comes from having wisdom and maintaining hope is offered. Personal stories such as "First Day in My Prosthesis" and "The Night the Hair Fell Out" offer insight into the difficulties cancer patients face, while the stories "Retirement" and "Amazing Grace" provide a spiritual dimension to this suffering.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

An Uplifting Message:

The book "Green Rubber Boots, A Joyful Journey to Wellness" is not only a book about surviving cancer. It has a larger message than that, the book illustrates how a positive outlook can help one overcome adversity. Through the stories in the book one can look at their own lives and see how a positive outlook could change their perception of the world.

Everyone can benefit!:

You don't have to be suffering from cancer or a serious illness to enjoy and benefit from a reading of Green Rubber Boots. Through its sheer gentle wisdom and humor, the messages within speak to the human spirit within us all. In 1979 at age 42, Canton, Ohio native Kathleen Whitmer discovered that she had sarcoma cancer, a rare type of cancer comprising less than 3% of all cancers. Then an art professor at Kent State University's School of Art, Whitmer agreed to participate in research trials and... more info

Interesting Account of NIH experimental work on sarcoma:

Recently, I heard Kathleen Whitmer speak and bought her book. It is an interesting account of her "journey back to wellness" courtesy of the experimental work done at the National Institutes of Health. We have her and the others who participated in the studies over the years to thank for some of the advances in the treatment of cancer that we have today. It is clear she is an amateur author, but her point and her sense of humor come across like she could be your neighbor feeding cookies to your own son in... more info