“It was such a shock when I was told I had stage four breast cancer that I sobbed my heart out,” West said, according to Metro. “My first thought was what about my children? And that it just wasn’t fair.” She felt like using the word “cancer” outrightly would be too much because everyone “knows someone and [she] was worried they’d hear other people’s stories from friends at school and become anxious about it,” she wrote on Facebook. More from CafeMom: A Woman Battling Breast Cancer Was Turned Away from MAC Cosmetics — & Ulta Saved the Day One day, West casually started writing some words on her phone, not thinking it would come to much. It ended up becoming a “crappy cancer journal,” as she put it on Facebook. Using Olivia’s illustrations and her own teaching skills as a primary school teacher, West wrote a “simple” children’s book that explains how she’s sick and going through chemotherapy treatment. Already, 2,000 copies have been printed, and sell for a little over $5 online. According to Metro, one nurse told West that it was “the best book she has seen” for children who have a parent with cancer. More from CafeMom: Dying Woman’s Breast Cancer Battle Chronicled in 35 Haunting Photos
