What Do You Give a Friend Facing Breast Cancer? This is the coffee table book you can take to the bubble bath and the gift book you can share with your best friend! On the morning after receiving her breast cancer diagnosis, Fran Padgett retreated to the beaches of Galveston, painting from sunrise to sunrise, and on to sunrise again. As she faced the year of treatment and the eventual pronouncement of becoming a "breast cancer survivor," Padgett chronicled - on paper and on canvas - her personal farewell to her body as she knew it. Through her art and through her book, Fran shares the triumphs, the sadnesses, the intensely personal choices; the ironies, the laughter, the tears; the sensations of survival, the complexities of healing. A gifted writer and prolific artist, Padgett is unpredictably lively, funny and feisty. With vivid candor and self-effacing humor she uses Breast Cancer Recovery: No One Wrote a Manual to offer comfort and inspire hope.