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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Better
    sub title: how I let go of control, held on to hope, and found joy in my darkest hour
  name:
    name part: Robach, Amy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: ""I have breast cancer." When Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach revealed her shocking diagnosis on live television in November 2013, the seasoned news reporter embarked on the most difficult and illuminating journey of her life. In this intimate memoir, she retraces the twelve months following her brave announcement and speaks candidly, for the first time, about how her illness impacted her family life and her marriage, tapped into her deepest fears and strengths, and transformed her in ways she never could have imagined. Only weeks earlier, in September 2013, ABC producers asked Robach to get an on-air mammogram on GMA to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Her first instinct was to say no-- there was no history of cancer in her family; she was only forty years old; and she felt strange drawing attention to herself when she had no personal connection to the issue. (She'd been meaning to get her first mammogram that year, but had conveniently "lost" the prescription.) But her colleague Robin Roberts, herself a cancer survivor, convinced her to do it with one simple sentence: "I can pretty much guarantee it will save a life." To Robach's surprise, the life she saved was her own: Tests revealed malignant tumors in her breast, and she immediately underwent a bilateral mastectomy, followed by six months of chemotherapy treatments. But Better is more than a story of illness and recovery. Robach recounts the day she and her husband, Andrew Shue, got the terrible news; the difficulty of telling her two young daughters; and the challenges of carrying on with the everyday duties of parenting, nurturing a fledgling second marriage, and managing a public career. She lays bare the emotional toll of her experience and mines her past for the significant moments that gave her the resilience to face each day. And she describes the incredible support network that lifted her up when she hit bottom. With honesty, humility and humor, Robach connects deeply with women just lik…
  abstract: "In this very personal book, Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach retraces the 12 months following her breast cancer diagnosis in October 2013, revealing details about her on-air mammogram on GMA, her treatment and its impact on her work life and family life, and her emotional journey from initial shock and devastation to resilience, bravery, and hope."--
  table of contents: A beautiful connection -- You want me to do what? -- "I promise, I'm not going to die" -- "I have breast cancer" -- A sixth sense -- All grown up by age twenty-three -- Listening to my heart -- Fireworks -- "We need some joy" -- "This is me, fighting" -- A trucker and a pirate -- No longer the girl with the ponytail -- "To avoid criticism, say nothing" -- Beauty in every instant.
  note: Amy Robach.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Robach, Amy
  subject:
    topic: Television personalities
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Television news anchors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Breast
    topic: Cancer
    topic: Patients
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  subject:
    topic: HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Cancer
  classification: PN1992.4.R315 A3 2015
  classification: 791.4502/8092 B
  classification: BIO022000 BIO025000 HEA039030
  identifier: 9780553392982
  identifier: 0553392980
  identifier: 9780553392999
  identifier: 2015025171
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150715
    record change date: 20151026135043.0
    record identifier: in00003594615
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng