Bad Hair Days
Pamela Bone, prize-winning journalist and author of Up We Grew , reveals the story of her battle with cancer, from her diagnosis in 2004, through chemotherapy and other invasive treatment, to the process of coming to terms with the inevitablility of dying.
Opinion
'This isn't a book about dying. It's a salute to life. Don't read it and weep; read it for pleasure. Read it for the sheer joy of holding it in your hands.'
Caroline Overington
[. . .] Bad Hair Days is a book of confession and hope. It is essentially one professional woman's story of how she has distilled the experience of illness to become something of enduring positive significance. [. . .] her measured words help and heal others."
Christopher Bantick, Weekend Australian, 29/09/2007
About this Title
'This book is an account of a journey with cancer: two years of my life in which the state of the world at times seemed to be reflecting the state of my health, or-to be less solipsistic-my state of health seemed to be in a similar condition to the world's. It is not an autobiography, though there are elements of that in it. It is not a textbook for cancer sufferers, although there are descriptions of cancer treatments and the various philosophies involved in treating cancer. It is about cancer, war, journalism, chocolate cake and a few other things.'
Pamela Bone was a prominent newspaper journalist and columnist when in 2004 she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow that can be treated but not cured. Dry-eyed, but often darkly humorous, Bad Hair Days describes a journey many baby boomers make-working and meeting the other demands of everyday life, minus hair and under the influence of chemo, while, outside the front door, the world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Sick in Chad
2 Something is happening but we don't know what it is
3 Not being brave
4 A working journalist
5 Christmas and the tsunami
6 The mother of all chemos
7 Grumpy old women
8 Considerations of war
9 The problems of elderly mothers
10 Ways of dying
11 Leaving The Age
12 Not the end
Notes
Index of names
About the Author
Pamela Bone's first book Up We Grew was a bestseller in Australia. A former associate editor of the Age newspaper, she twice won the Melbourne Press Club's award for best newspaper columnist, and was a recipient of the United Nation's Media Peace Prize.
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