Chemo-Therapist ― How Cancer Cured a Marriage

Chemo-Therapy: How Cancer Cured a Marriage details the journey and emotional and physical turmoil that a diagnosis of cancer brings to a marriage and a family with young children. More than that, it is a moving testimonial of a marriage and love renewed by a shared experience with a life-threatening illness.

Mary Potter Kenyon graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of Northern Iowa in 1985. She has worked as a freelance writer for over 25 years and is widely published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, including five Chicken Soup books. Her essay, “A Mother’s Masterpiece,” which dealt with the connection between creativity and grief, was published in the January/February issue of Poet & Writer’s magazine. She is the author of Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, and the Stories Behind America’s Extreme Obsession (Familius, August 2013). Several of her devotions will be included in the Zondervan grief Bible, Hope in the Mourning, to be released in November of 2013. She currently writes a weekly couponing column for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald newspaper and holds couponing workshops for area community colleges, libraries, and women’s groups. She conducts writing workshops for Hawkeye Community College, the River Lights bookstore in Dubuque, and the Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. She does public speaking for women’s groups and churches. Mary was her husband’s caregiver during months of cancer treatment in 2006. Excerpts of her caregiving story have appeared in Voices of Caregiving (LaChance Publishing, May 2010), Love is a Flame (Bethany House, July 2010), and God Makes Lemonade (God Makes Lemonade, August 2010). Her essay on caregiving “Feel Like Crying? Pinch Your Nose,” was featured on the Survivor’s Review online magazine, Volume XII. Mary’s author website can be viewed at marypotterkenyon.com