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Robyn Michele Levy
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My Yummy Mummy days are long gone. I have officially crossed over to the other side. I am now a Tummy Mummy with menopausal powers.
I no longer glow — I sweat. I no longer bleed — I bleat. I’ve traded in my sex appeal for text appeal. And this suits me just fine.
After all, I’d rather turn pages than turn heads.
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Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown
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Most Of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown (Biographies & Memoirs)
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The imaginative, hilarious, and moving memoir of a woman coping with both Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer.
At age forty-three, Robyn Levy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and, eight months later, with breast cancer. With irreverent and at times mordant humour, Most of Me chronicles Levy’s early, mysterious symptoms of Parkinson's (a dragging left foot, a frozen left hand, and a crash into “downward dead dog” position on the yoga mat), the devastating diagnosis, her discovery of two lumps in her breast, her mastectomy and oophorectomy (after which she discovers there is no ovary fairy), and her life since then dealing with her diverse disease portfolio.
Levy is accompanied on her journey by a fantastic cast of characters, including her Cry Lady (who always makes appearances at inopportune times) and perky Dolores the Prosthesis, as well as her loyal dog and a convoy of health professionals, family members, friends, and neighbours.
She makes the best of her visits to those health professionals. At an appointment with her neurologist, she participates in party games such as “try to move the patient’s rigid left arm.” After “make the patient lose her balance but catch her before she falls,” Levy is sorry that the party is over, especially when she gets a prescription instead of a grab bag.
Both heartbreaking and hilarious, Most of Me offers a unique glimpse into a creative mind, an ailing body, and the restorative power of humour and fantasy.
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