The Looking Mask: A Journey Through Cancer

The Looking Mask: A Journey Through Cancer

The Looking Mask: A Journey Through Cancer, is a powerful and intimate account of a man€s fight with cancer, its physical and emotional consequences, and himself. <br /> Stephen Wendt is an outwardly successful man. He is a husband of thirty-four years, the father of three children, the grandfather of three, and a retired Naval Officer who served his country for almost twenty-eight years. Despite all his success, his life turns on the simple sentence: €œYou need to prepare yourself for the very real possibility that you have cancer.€ <br /> The Looking Mask is the story of Steve€s five month fight with cancer. His cancer treatments include three operations, three rounds of chemotherapy and thirty-five daily radiation treatments. <br /> It is during his radiation treatments, while he is covered by a mask and bolted into a machine which immobilizes him, that Steve evaluates himself, the life he has lived and the decisions he has made in the past and those he may make in the future. <br /> The Looking Mask: A Journey Through Cancer, is a story of faith, love, and learning to cope with decisions made throughout a lifetime by a flawed, yet successful man. <br />The Looking Mask will help others examine their lives, and how they live them.