Ch. 2: Not Quite One of You: Testimony of a Wayward "Survivor" Sociologist
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Description
This chapter appears in the book, Negotiating the Emotional Challenges of Conducting Deeply Personal Research in Health. Edited by Alexandra "Xan" C.H. Nowakowski and J.E. Sumerau.
Chapter abstract: I was exhausted, losing weight, and having back pain after driving long dis-tances during the fall semester of my first tenure-track academic job at a small liberal arts college. I would never have connected these things to conclude, or even suspect, that I had cancer. So much gets linked in retrospect after a diagnosis. That time my foot slipped off the clutch of my Honda Civic and I felt a searing pain in my left hip. The first night I woke from a deep sleep doubled over in pain with cramps in my gut. My general lack of appetite. I attributed that and the tiredness to stress at dealing with a four-course per semester teaching load and it being my first time having sole responsibility for any class. The cramps were just cramps, especially when they came around the time of my period.
ISBN
9781315152066
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Routledge, part of Taylor & Francis
City
New York
Keywords
Medical sociology, Cancer, Recovery, Narrative
Disciplines
Family, Life Course, and Society | Medicine and Health
Recommended Citation
Citeroni, Tracy B., "Ch. 2: Not Quite One of You: Testimony of a Wayward "Survivor" Sociologist" (2017). Books and Chapters. 19.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/19