Summary: What Cancer Took From Her

What Cancer Took From Her

“I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I’ve spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else.” (186). Lucy was diagnosed with cancer at the age of five and it changed her from the day she was diagnosed until the day she finally stopped caring about what people thought of her. She always worried more about what her face looked like more than the fact she had cancer. She struggled for such a long time until she finally accepted herself.

When Lucy was diagnosed with cancer she spent five years battling and treating it. In those five years the doctor cut a piece of her jaw out. She was very self-conscious for the longest time and disliked herself and the way she looked. A lot of people think that they don’t fit in with everyone else and this is how Lucy felt. Cancer was a big and scary part of her life, but she cared more about what her face looked like. Fifteen years of Lucy’s life were spent reconstructing her face so she would fit in and feel better about herself. After those fifteen years she finally was satisfied with her face, not because it looked any

Lucy makes a lot of changes throughout the book. She spent five years battling and curing her cancer, then after that she spent fifteen years reconstructing what cancer took from her. Lucy overcomes so much throughout her life and she doesn’t want people to think she is sharing her story for people to look up at her in any way, she just wants people to take her work and story seriously and judge her book for its literary merit and not its heartbreaking content. (230). So, that is how Lucy made changes in her life and how she overcame everything cancer took from her and made her experience. Lucy changes throughout the story because she realized that she shouldn’t compare herself to other people and put her down for something that she can’t