Angels under my Bed

A Belfast nurse is hoping to inspire cancer patients with an emotive new book detailing her own personal battle with the life threatening disease.

Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

December 4, 2011 | Copyright

A Belfast nurse is hoping to inspire cancer patients with an emotive new book detailing her own personal battle with the life threatening disease.

In what is being acclaimed as an uplifting read, Carol Ann Creagh has penned Angels Under My Bed: My Struggle with Cancer.

Carol Ann was 44 and juggling three nursing jobs with looking after her six children when her world was rocked by a breast cancer diagnosis in 2002.

A traumatic year followed when a particularly aggressive course of chemotherapy left the petite blonde "unrecognisable" but from it emerged a new woman with a new outlook on life.

Now aged 53, she says cancer taught her to follow her dreams

Belfast Telegraph

Her account of that journey, Angels Under My Bed, takes its reader on an emotional rollercoaster, from the breakdown of her decades-long marriage to the trauma of her son's near-fatal car crash, via her brother's brush with death in an African township. Beginning with her own run-in with cancer, it ends with her beloved father's death from the same illness.

All of which might sound depressing but believe it or not, it's a page-turner. For Carol Ann is a vivacious, cheerful and positive person, and she has written her story with such honesty, humility and humour that it touches a universal nerve. It's really about what it is to be human.

Irish Independent Newspaper review

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/how-angels-helped-me-take-the-fear-out-of-cancer-3019800.html