Life Is Sweet: A Memoir

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At the tender age of forty-nine, fit, successful, and in love, Anne Kearns was diagnosed with metastatic endometrial (uterine) cancer. And not the wimpy kind of slow-moving cancer. The most aggressive kind. A few months later, she was told she had little time left. Life Is Sweet is a delicate, heartwarming, and often humorous look at how Anne kicked, screamed, and clawed her way through her cancer journey. A journey that introduced her to meditation and singing bowls, despite her Catholic upbringing. A journey that had her on her knees, literally, as she stumbled through one treatment after another, twice facing death. A journey that stripped her of her job, her looks, her social status, yet brought surprising discoveries. And a journey that brought her closer to her then boyfriend Tom, who asked her to marry him despite her grim prognosis. Anne's memoir provides a poignant view into what numerous cancer patients are, or soon will be going through: the roller-coaster world of innovative treatment, gut-wrenching side effects, and tantalizing hope. It touches the heart and reveals the amazing human capacity to endure and heal.

For close to twenty-five years, Anne Kearns practiced intellectual property and commercial litigation. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado, at Boulder, and of the Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. Life is Sweet is her first book. She lives in Los Altos with her husband, Tom.