Rickie Redeemed

50-year-old fitness addict Rickie Lennox does not see herself as a likely candidate for breast cancer; but in Rickie Redeemed, cougar Rickie has her comeuppance as the 'Big C' thrusts her into the next phase of her personal evolution. Between mammograms, sonograms, and waiting-room jitters, she reveals the story of her dream date with Swedish actor Rolf Halverson and its shocking denouement when he discovers a lump in her perfect left breast. Her life post-Rolf quickly descends into a vortex of diagnostics, chemotherapy, and the attendant discomforts; but her relentless belief in self-healing also provokes her to explore alternative remedies, meditation, and chiropractic-as well as doses of supportive bonding with friends and family members. When her course of treatment is almost over she encounters a new challenge in Ian Shamano, the radiation therapist to whom she is irresistibly drawn, though he sees her damaged breast on a daily basis. The outcome is a testimony to both her survival and the real cure she achieves in Rickie Redeemed.