Ray Kluun - Love Life

Ok ok, I really should get back to work but this book is so not put-downable... It is evoking all possible emotions known to me.

I'll try quickly summarise what I've read so far (I'm only about one third through the book) but I don't think it will do it justice. And, oh, the book is divided into 3 parts, and I'm only at Part 1 (i.e. this is my disclaimer, guys..).

The story is about a happy, married couple with a toddler who has it all. The wife then gets diagnosed with breast cancer and in a blink of an eye their life changed -- to trips to doctors and hospitals and chemotherapy and radiation and psychotherapist appointments. It talks about how the husband deals with all these changes and what he actually feels towards what they are experiencing. And what the wife goes through, in detail -- the doctors' opinons, the books, the chemotherapy, the hair loss, the throwing up, etc; and how he sees the wife coping with it.

Ablation of her breast had to be carried out and the excerpt below is when they were at the hospital the first time after the amputation, to remove the bandage. For a long time she looked at where her 'ex-D cup-breast' used to be; the 10 cm slit, the stitches, the skin, the disfigurement.

"Then she looks at me. I can see in her eyes she's humilated. Humiliated by the cancer. God, this is dreadful. She who wants to be beautiful must suffer pain. She who wants to stay alive must be distinctly ugly.

Those are the laws of cancer."

Please please, go read this book! It is (so far) about love and support and reality and infidelity, and it also gives you an educational peek of what goes on in the lives of cancer patients. It is just so very touching. Love Life by Ray Kluun. I am so glad they translated it to English!

Can't wait to continue my reading...