Mesothelioma Support Books

For a free copy of Lorraine Kember's "Lean on Me - Cancer through a Carer's Eyes" or Harvy Pass' "100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma", please fill out the form below. Please remember to select which book you'd like to receive.

About the Author(s)

Lorraine Kember is a published Author and Poet as well as a Public Speaker.

Since writing her book "Lean on Me" Cancer through a Carer's Eyes - a true story of how she cared for her dying husband, she is frequently invited to speak to groups of Palliative Care; Silver Chain and Nursing Staff members and volunteers, as well as the general public, about the importance of Pain Management and symptom control to quality of life and caring for terminally ill loved ones at home.

Lorraine also speaks to other Carers and Grief Support Groups. Sharing her emotional journey with her audience, she talks about: Anticipatory Grief associated with terminal diagnosis, Coping with grief after loss and finding the strength to move on with your life.

"100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma" was written by an outstanding team of authors, led by a world-class lung disease expert (Harvey Pass) and including an "insider's" comments from the wife and caregiver of a patient.

About the Books

"Lean on Me - Cancer through a Carer's Eyes" - Mesothelioma was the furthest thing from Brian Kember's mind when at the age of fifty two he began to experience shortness of breath. Exposed to Asbestos as a child living with his parents in the asbestos mining town of Wittenoom in Western Australia; he could not have imagined that forty five years later, he would be diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma and given a prognosis of three to nine months. So began Brian's courageous two year battle with this debilitating disease and his wife Lorraine's emotional journey of care.

Her determination to care for her husband at home and to ensure that he did not suffer unnecessary pain, resulted in him attaining a quality of life few thought possible.

'Lean on Me' Cancer through a Carer's Eyes is Lorraine and Brian's inspirational true story. If you are caring for a loved one with Mesothelioma or cancer of any kind, you need to read this book.

Uniquely combining both the physical and emotional impact of caring for a loved one with cancer, 'Lean on Me' includes insight and discussion on: pain control, symptom management and coping with grief as well as many excerpts and poems from Lorraine's personal diary. These deeply moving pieces, penned by Lorraine as she cared for her dying husband, offer a rare insight into 'anticipatory grief', the roller coaster of emotions we experience upon the terminal diagnosis of a loved one.

100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma - Whether you're a newly diagnosed mesothelioma patient, a survivor, or a friend of a relative of either, this book offers help. The only book to provide the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, legal options, and much more.

Testimonials

Christopher E. Hahn: Executive Director of The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
Mesothelioma patients and families walk a lonely road. 100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma is a welcome friend. Sharing from their own profound personal and professional experience, Dr. Pass, Laura Roy, and Sue Vento have provided an invaluable resource for all patients and families struggling with this disease.

Roger Woodruff: Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
This is one woman's very moving story of caring for her husband for two years while he battled mesothelioma. The emotional insights she shares with her diary would be a great comfort to anyone caring for someone with advanced cancer or any other terminal illness. Her focus on his quality of life as she educates herself about the medical aspects of his care is quite remarkable, and would be inspirational to others in a similar situation and would empower them with realistic hope.

Stephen Carmody: Manager Hospice Care Service Perth WA
"Lean on Me" is indeed a compelling read and, I would further contend, an essential resource for all who work with patients who face life-limiting or terminal illness. Lorraine's exploration of her feelings, as she cares for her dying husband Brian, is a revelation. I believe this book is an extraordinary insight into the challenge that confronts ordinary people facing life-limiting disease, and would commend it as an excellent grounding resource for health professionals who work alongside those facing terminal illness.

DR ANDREW DEAN: Consultant Physician in Palliative Care Perth WA
I believe that this is a truly amazing book that everybody with cancer should read. It combines a thorough, warm, insightful and intelligent description of a very personal journey. Lorraine's refreshing discussions, thoughts and views really do provide a good insight to the trials and tribulations that accompany an illness such as this but also emphasize the good things that they experienced together and the benefits they got from their treatment. It is this writing that actually gives such hope to anybody who is potentially facing the same journey. Any families who have been touched by this disease will undoubtedly find in it inspiration and hope.