Cancer is My Name

by Renee Robinson

I received a calling card from the Grim Reaper. Announcing! You have colon cancer.....stop.....breath.....colon cancer. I was 43 years old, had just started to go through empty nest syndrome as the chicks had just left the nest and BOOM! It dropped like bomb from the sky!
I soon realized just how important my writing truly is. Since being drafted into the war on cancer, writing has been my weapon of choice. I could not carry this albatross without first ranting and raving and crying over my mortality in the form of words. I am allowed to behave like a total mess for the sake of a poem or story. This enables me to paint on the Cover-Girl smile and behave rather socially acceptable while in public.
I realized I am writing what every cancer victim feels but we are much too "polite" to say. We do not discuss the things that will make our loved ones uncomfortable. The loved one begins to feel you (the cancer bearer) has given up because you feel a need to rant, rave, to be damned angry!! AND in need of someone to stand there and listen.....listen.....listen.....

152 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 7, 2012

About the author

One of the author’s most exciting accomplishments is her new Children Book Series. Each child is welcome to meet adorable animal characters as they learn about each holiday as experienced for the first time. Bonus chapters are added in each book allowing the child extra interaction through coloring.
The first book of the holiday series is called: Right Away, Orimae! which depicts farm animals who are searching for luck on St. Patrick’s Day in order to help Orimae, the milk cow who ran out of milk.
The second book of the holiday series: The Bunny Tale is an adorable Easter story about the Easter Bunny and his secret helper. See what happens when the he is forced to stray off the bunny trail and ends up finding a wolf who is hungry and hunting for dinner.