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Welcome!Welcome to janhasak.com! This site has been established so that you can learn more about Jan Hasak and her memoir on breast cancer, Mourning Has Broken: Reflections on Surviving Cancer. Various resources and information about the book are at your fingertips, so go ahead and click away. Jan Hasak has also set up a blog, on which comments are always welcome. What's New?Here's where to look to see what the latest is with author and speaker Jan Hasak! Look soon for Jan's upcoming publication of an inspirational, Christian-themed allegory about her two bouts of breast cancer, interlaced with poems. Entitled The Pebble Path: Returning Home from a Forest of Shadows, the book relates the story of Fanciful, a princess, who meets and marries Farcical and picks up pebbles of wisdom as she travels down the path following her cancer diagnosis. Almost anyone whose life has been touched by cancer or who works in a cancer-related medical profession will see their situations reflected in this book. Click here to see a representative poem from this book! |
About the BookHow does a Christian woman maintain a bright outlook as she struggles through the psychological nightmare of breast cancer? A wife and mother, the author is faced with a cancer crisis while raising three young boys, working full time, and teaching Sunday school. This intensely personal story chronicles how the Lord sustained her through two bouts of cancer. The reader discovers her process for enduring diagnosis and treatment, making instant decisions, seeking support groups, facing a curious public, and holding family and job together. She addresses beauty challenges and gives survival tips to weary travelers on this lonely road. The book also explores how to manage the physical and emotional trauma of lymphedema, a little-known disorder affecting many cancer survivors due to lymph-node surgery. NEW: Book Trailer |