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Thank God I Got Cancer... I'm Not a Hypochondriac Anymore!: 10 Years Later
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781967884049
Publisher: City of Palms Publishing Co.
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
FIVE-STAR READERS' FAVORITE REVIEWS:
It's less a cancer story than a story about what happens when life keeps throwing curveballs long after you thought the hard part was over.
- Anne-Marie Reynolds, Readers' Favorite
There is never a dull moment in this book. It will make you laugh and cry at the same time.
The book's greatest strength is how she seamlessly weaves humor into very heavy moments without ever undercutting her real grief.
- Ibrahim Aslan, Readers' Favorite
(Large Print Edition)
This is a standalone memoir. You do not need to have read the first book to read this one.
Ten years after surviving cancer, Angelina Assanti thought the hard part was behind her. She was wrong.
It didn't.
With the same irreverent humor that turned her original cancer experience into comedy, Assanti takes readers through the strange, painful, and often absurd decade that followed: the lasting effects of treatment, grief and loss, Hurricane Ian, toxic relationships, publishing disasters, medical frustrations, an unfortunate amount of attention from airport security, and the unexpected ways cancer continued to reshape her life long after she was declared cancer-free.
Along the way, she confronts the parts of survivorship nobody puts on an inspirational poster: what treatment can leave behind, how illness changes relationships, why being grateful to be alive doesn't magically erase trauma, and what happens when the person who survived is no longer the person who went into treatment.
Funny, candid, occasionally inappropriate, yet ultimately hopeful, Thank God I Got Cancer: 10 Years Later isn't simply a book about surviving cancer. It's about surviving what comes next, finding humor when life refuses to cooperate, and discovering that sometimes the life you never planned leads to an ending even you never saw coming.
This book is for anyone who has ever been told, At least you're okay now, while privately thinking, Define okay.
It's for cancer survivors discovering that remission and recovery aren't necessarily the same thing. It's for caregivers, friends, and family members trying to understand why surviving a serious illness doesn't automatically return someone to the person they were before it happened.
But it's also for anyone whose life took a spectacular detour from the one they thought they were going to have.
Because this isn't a story about everything cancer took away. It's about everything that came afterward.
Through loss, upheaval, bad decisions, unexpected turns, and plenty of moments that probably shouldn't be funny but somehow are, Assanti discovers that rebuilding a life doesn't necessarily mean getting your old one back. Sometimes you build something entirely different. And sometimes, against all reasonable expectations, you like it better.
Part cancer survivorship memoir, part midlife reinvention story, and part love letter to the absurdity of being human, Thank God I Got Cancer: 10 Years Later is about resilience, relationships, grief, second acts, starting over, and finding joy after life has thoroughly ignored your original plans.
Cancer may have started this story.
It doesn't get the last word.
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