Day Zero: The Day My Own Cells Gave Me Another Chance: 2 (The Survival Chapters) - Softcover

Roland, KT

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798194678556

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What happens when the world shuts down at the exact moment your life falls apart?

In March 2020, KT Roland walked into a doctor’s office alone and heard the words that would divide her life into before and after:

Multiple myeloma. Stage 3.

Outside the hospital walls, COVID-19 was bringing the world to a standstill. Inside them, she was beginning a fight for her life.

Day Zero is the raw, deeply personal story of facing an incurable blood cancer during one of the most isolating moments in modern history. From chemotherapy and painful injections to stem cell collection, high-dose melphalan, and an autologous stem cell transplant, Roland takes readers beyond the medical terminology and into the moments that rarely make it into patient brochures—the fear, exhaustion, dark humor, loneliness, and determination it takes to keep moving forward when your body and your world no longer feel familiar.

COVID changed everything. Appointments were attended alone. Hospital doors separated patients from the people who loved them. Her husband, Lance, could walk beside her only so far before he had to leave her behind. There was no waiting room filled with family. No village gathered at the bedside. There were text messages, phone calls, hospital hallways, and long nights when survival became something she had to face largely on her own.

Then came August 24, 2020—Day Zero.

The day her own collected stem cells were returned to her body.

The day the medical team reset the clock.

The day she began counting again.

But Day Zero wasn't the end of the story. It was the beginning of learning how to live after everything had changed.

Told with vulnerability, honesty, and unexpected humor, Day Zero is not a story about pretending to be fearless. It is about being terrified and continuing anyway. It is about love when the person who desperately wants to protect you is forced to stand on the other side of the door. It is about losing control, finding strength in unlikely places, and discovering that survival isn't a single moment.

Sometimes survival begins at zero.

For anyone who has faced cancer, transplant, chronic illness, caregiving, isolation, or a life that suddenly became unrecognizable, Day Zero is a reminder that reaching zero doesn't mean you've reached the end.

Sometimes, it's where the rest of your story begins.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798194678556
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 287
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