My Mother’s Roommate
My Mother’s Roommate
Adult Memoir
March 2024
SOFTCOVER @ $13.95
HARDCOVER @ $19.95
Sandra Cowden led an average life as a nurse, wife, and mother, but this changed in an instant one chilly day in January of 1981. Her world unraveled as she battled her brain tumor and the consequences of this life-altering diagnosis.
The impacts of medication and the tumor on Sandra’s brain frayed her reality. Chaos, fear, and denial incubated in her mind, but she also had hope.
My Mother’s Roommate is a real first-person account of a young mother facing a cancer diagnosis, braided together with her daughter’s memories decades later. Together, Sandra and her daughter Karen, a cancer researcher, weave a promise for improved care for future patients and families facing cancer.
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“My Mother’s Roommate is a moving (and familiar) account of what it’s like to have a family member deal with cancer. For those who receive that unfortunate diagnosis, this book will help them - to some extent - with what may happen in their situation. I wish my parents and grandparents had had a book like this when they were dealing with their various cancer journeys.”
Mary T. - White Plains, NY