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My Angels Are Come is a remarkably candid insight into every aspect of the author’s life-changing encounter with prostate cancer. Its narrative is frank, bold, and information rich, offering a generous behind-the-scenes look at both the nature of the disease and the complex character of the caregivers who made coping with the disease possible. Indeed despite the author’s fascination with the state-of-the-art technology used in his treatment, the truly life-changing experiences that remain with him to this day are those of the people – always the people. This book is above all an enthusiastic celebration of the caregivers who literally touched his soul and gave him back his life.
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Art Stump received his BA (Psychology) and MBA (Finance/Marketing) degrees from Indiana University. While in Bloomington he was active athletically in IU Judo, winning AAU state honors, and in rugby, captaining the championship IU Rugby Team. After finishing graduate school, he was recruited to work for a large Chicago bank and in the span of three years advanced to the position of the bank’s Marketing Officer.
With a longstanding interest in photography, Mr. Stump decided next to change focus and freelance as a professional photographer. That worked. He established a Chicago studio and over the next 25 years shot fashion and beauty assignments for some of the largest fashion retail accounts in the Chicago-Midwest market, his work appearing often in Vogue, Bazaar, Glamour, and similar fashion magazines.
He later returned to South Bend, Indiana and served as president of Interax Corporation, a consulting firm. His subsequent encounter with cancer in 2003 became one of the most powerful and life-shaping experiences of his life, one that led directly to his decision to bare his soul to the world and write a book.
That book is My Angels Are Come.
Last month Clumsy Ducks Publishing in South Bend, Ind., published "My Angels Are Come" by Art Stump, in which the author recalls the details of his treatment for prostate cancer. Consulting editor Donna Welch says, “This book is unique because of the remarkable detail and candor that the author uses in dealing with such a private subject. He explores and shares every intimate aspect of the disease and its treatment—physical, psychological and emotional—as his cancer experience progresses.”
Most memoirs of battles against cancer are stories of overcoming the odds. “My Angels Are Come: A Deeply Personal Journal of Cancer Survival” is not one of those stories. Seeking to give readers a highly personal look into the mind of someone who discovers their cancer, “My Angels Are Come” walks the reader through the fear of death and the hopelessness of the afflicted. Covering every step of the process and every aspect of the author’s feelings, “My Angels Are Come” is the closest thing to experiencing cancer a reader will ever want to personally encounter. Highly recommended for community library memoir collections.
The book is excellent for anyone considering proton therapy and is a must for anyone that has chosen proton therapy. As a person who is starting proton therapy in a couple of weeks it was very helpful and as much as possible was very comforting as the unknown can be very scary. Mr. Stump goes into great detail and shares many personal experiences that are very helpful. Don't miss this excellent and well-written book.
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I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for your book, it’s awesome. I… did not finish it yet. I’m reading it slowly. Makes you cry, makes you laugh. It’s just fabulous.
— Edda Taylor
I enjoyed the book very much and couldn’t wait to read more… finished it the first week. I already miss the people at the Center and the give-and-take of the author and the doctors.
— Ruth
I couldn’t put the book down – read it all the way through. It was just amazing. You could actually see the people. It was just so personal. It is really, really a very good book. Very VERY well written, and holds your interest… you just want to keep seeing what’s going on… a super job.
— Barb Kracher, Cover Shots Modeling Agency
You answered lots of questions and left nothing out… God bless you for that… there are a lot of scared folk out there who don’t know who or what to ask… you have certainly put together the information to get them talking to their own docs… what to expect and when to expect it… God bless you again.
— Donna
In addition to its being a story of his journey with cancer, his analysis and confrontation of an institution that can cause immense individual harm and leave one feeling powerless and vulnerable inspired me to hopefully act as courageously in similar situations…. Please thank him for us for his generosity in sharing this story.
— Patty McConnell
Your book not only represents your winning battle with cancer (no small accomplishment by itself), but also a new found need and ability to share your experiences with others. It IS very personal. Having gone through chemo and radiation for breast cancer, I recognize more than ever the impact a cancer diagnosis can have on life views. I also know how wonderfully important those angels who deliver treatment are to healing.
— Joan R.
It’s so neat, it’s like you’re right there, right next to him when everything happens. I started reading and right away it was six chapters later, and I still didn’t want to put it down. And I’m not usually a reader.
— Brett S.
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