Everything Changes

“When I woke up the morning after my diagnosis, my first thought was the opposite of ‘Why me?’ Why not me?”

Through her unique writing style, Kairol Rosenthal seamlessly interjects soul-searching questions into her prose. These questions feel as though they had always been sitting quietly within waiting for the right time to sprout.

“Why not me? Why a fifty-five-year-old truck driver, a nine-year-old in the pediatric unit, or my seventy-seven-year-old grandmother? Of course, me…. My summation was that anyone who dares to construe pain and injury as a personal affliction, rather than a human condition, hasn’t been living with his or her eyes open. With that, I climbed out of bed and put one foot in front of the other.”

Change is a constant element within our lives. It exists along a continuum, from the small to the monumental. We can’t create a construct for quantifying change. Each individual perceives life in unique ways. Yet change is a word so commonly used that we don’t even react to it anymore. It’s used in every medium, yet rarely is it deciphered. Some individuals equate change with hope—others equate change with loss.

Change is fundamentally complex, both internally and externally.

What does life look like when everything changes?

Ask a young adult cancer patient.

Dealing with thyroid cancer herself, Kairol Rosenthal decided to do just that.

Just released, Kairol Rosenthal’s book Everything Changes arms patients with the knowledge and comfort that accompany realizing that others are on similar journeys, placing one foot in front of the other, negotiating a path that is no longer a narrow barren dark tunnel.

This book should be available in the hospital room of every young adult cancer patient. Its bright, blue-sky cover would immediately bring light and a sense of belonging at a time when everything begins to change.

Everything Changes symbolizes a giant step forward for the young adult cancer community. And so today, as Kairol Rosenthal writes, Everything Changes. We are simply moving forward.

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All the Details…

Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s

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About Everything Changes

Emerging from cancer treatment at age 29, choreographer and writer Kairol Rosenthal embarked on a 5-year journey across the country interviewing young men and women living with cancer.  From the Bible Belt to the Big Apple and beyond, 25 perfect strangers confessed to her what they would not divulge to their doctors, therapists, friends, lovers, family, or in support groups.

Part travelogue, diary, and investigative reporting, EVERYTHING CHANGES includes an unprecedented compilation of expert advice and extensive resources on young adult cancer topics such as dating and sex, medical insurance and the healthcare system, faith and spirituality, employment and career, fertility, adoption, and parenting, friends and family, clinical trials and alternative medicine, college life and scholarships, and young adult caregiving.

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Final Note: I wholeheartedly believe in this book and am grateful to Kairol for dedicating so much of herself in order to bring this book to the general public.

Enough chatting — link on over to Amazon and get Everything Changes!

Best wishes,

Carolyn

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