Your Mate, Hodgkin’s: A true story of resilience, positivity and self-help

Rob found himself in the chemotherapy ward of an old handsome hospital outhouse and struck up a conversation with a wonderful man by the name of John. ＂It’s all about staying positive＂, he stated after I asked him how he had mentally dealt with over two years of treatment. This drove Rob to learn and understand ’the how’ of positivity when faced with such a desperate reality.

The symptoms, the surgeries, the waiting, the vastness of his new reality - it’s all captured in this desperate tale that so many of us experience. Cancer and chemotherapy bring with it depression and anxiety, bundled with hopelessness and a sense of the fickleness of life. Rob chose to change his perspective; not to dwell on the negative and to live in the positive. Rob discovers and records all the coping mechanisms he feels can help patients, support networks and medical practitioners alike to find positivity and cope with cancer.

This easy to navigate book gives the reader an understanding of the cancer journey, a guide through each coping mechanism to find positivity, and an explanation of chemotherapy nutrition to nourish a body ravaged by cancer and chemicals, all of which the medical industry didn’t provide him throughout his journey. Rob has weaved his extensive research of medicine and science into a must-read story of a cancer and chemotherapy patient’s experience. He explains the importance of fasting and chemotherapy nutrition including what not to consume.