Living with the Ribbon: A Teenagers Story About Battling Cancer Through High School

by MacKenzie Greenberg

MacKenzie's life would be classified as ideal by most teenage standards. A set of supportive parents who were still lovingly married, a best friend who was also her identical twin, a mentally tough athlete (who had more muscles than most of her guy friends), and a competitive GPA that was sure to get her into a great college. Everything was right on track for a perfect life, until the age of sixteen, when she was shockingly diagnosed with cancer during a routine physical. Living with the Ribbon is an authentic recount of how MacKenzie Greenberg dealt with the diagnosis (what denial?), suffered through anxiety at each medical appointment (all one hundred-plus of them), responded with "Fine" when asked that annoying "How are you doing/feeling?" question, stubbornly refused to listen to the advice of her support system to "take it easy," and ultimately, how she continues to battle daily with a disease that will not play by the rules.

132 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 2015

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book

Whether you or someone you know has or had cancer, or not, it is a great read. Learned at lot from a very young but wise woman. Everyone should read to know how or how not to handle yourself around someone handling an extremely tough challenging time in their life. You will cry as I did but you need to read this story.

[Tara McDonough · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent