an adult
coloring & activity
book
puzzles, fun, DOT TO DOTs,
mazes, word finds, and
much much more!!
WRITTEN BY KIM KOVEL
ILLUSTRATED BY MARK SMITH
A MESSAGE for YOU
WARNING
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK MIGHT BE WRONG.
BUT IT MIGHT FEEL JUST RIGHT.
INTRODUCTION
CANCER ISn’T FUNNY. WE KNOW THAT.
YOU KNOW THAT. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.
THERE’S NO RIGHT, OR WRONG, WAY TO APPROACH IT,
BUT WHAT HELPS US COPE IS LAUGHTER.
REMEMBER, YOU CAN’T CONTROL WHAT COMES YOUR WAY,
BUT YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU REACT TO IT.
WE DIDN’T WANT YOU IN OUR CLUB, BUT NOW
THAT YOU ARE, WE’RE HERE TO HELP!
ABOUT
THIS BOOK WAS WRITEN for you BY
CANCER ASS-KICKER KIM KOVEL, AND ILLUSTRATED
BY ARTIST-INSTIGATOR MARK SMITH.
kim & mark are also DESIGNERS AT NIKE,
WHERE they LAUGH A LOT AND NEVER COLLUDE.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER
ACCORDING TO POPULAR RESEARCH,
LAUGHTER THERAPY HELPS...
LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE
(WE ALREADY HAVE CANCER,
LET’S AVOID HEART ATTACK & STROKE)
BOOST T CELLS
(YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM SOLDIERS)
TRIGGER ENDORPHINS
(YOUR BODY’S NATURAL PAIN KILLERS)
REDUCE STRESS LEVELS
(OM...)
IMPROVE MENTAL FUNCTIONS
(COMBAT CHEMO BRAIN)
SO, LAUGH...
IT’S CONTAGIOUS!
FIND THE LUMP
THE JOYS OF EARLY DETECTION!
THERE’S ONLY ONE LUMP TO FIND..... SEARCH LEFT,
RIGHT, UP, DOWN, FORWARD AND BACKWARD.
brain maze
can your chemo brain make it
through your first maze ?
LAUGHTER THERAPY
FILL IN THE BLANKS
to be rEAD ENTHUSIASTICALLY
SCHEDULE PLENTY OF
NOUN
OVER THE NEXT
AMOUNT OF TIME
TO REASSESS AND REDEFINE YOUR
RATHER THAN
NOUN
LIMITING IT TO THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES.
INSTEAD OF ONLY
MUST DO TODAY OR
NOUN
ON THE
VERB
ADJECTIVE
WORK YOU
OBSESSING ABOUT
ADVERB
, LOOK FOR WAYS TO CULTIVATE YOUR LONG TERM
.
PLURAL NOUN
IMAGINE WHERE YOU WANT TO BE IN
NUMBER
YEARS, BUT REMAIN PRACTICAL IN THE PROCESS.
ULTIMATELY, IT’S MORE SATISFYING TO
YOUR
VERB
TAKE LASTING
PLURAL NOUN
SHAPE THAN TO SEE THEM BLOOM
ADVERB
, ONLY TO
FADE FROM THE PICTURE.
THINGS ARE WORTH THE WAIT.
ADJECTIVE
HOW ARE “WE” doing TODAY?
ASSESS THE HIGHLIGHTS OF YOUR DAY.
USE THE SCALE OF 1 TO F.U.!
F.U.
F.U.
F.U.
F.U.
F.U.
1
1
1
1
1
PAIN
NAUSEA
FATIGUE
IN’S
OUT’S
overall assessment
HAPPY HOUR
GRAB YOUR CRAYONS AND customize
your chemo coCKTAIL. CHEERS!
DOT TO DOT
give us a hand ...no glove, no love.
touch me tender, touch me true
1
20
19
2
18
3
6
9
15
11
4
5
16
16
7
8
10
12
13
14
17
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
BECAUSE OF CANCER, YOU’LL MASTER A NEW LANGUAGE!
solve each one, THEN assemble the circled
letters to sOLVE THE PHRASE.
neiama
2
imoabreksr
3
trop
4
conogsitlO
atiardoin
5
RGUSERY
6
UTORM
7 8
9
COMAHERTPYEH
10
SISEMRNIO
11
RESMU
12
osbiyp
TRVNIANOUES
13
H
F
2
3
4
5
6
C
7
8
9
10
11
!
12
13
AMAZE YOURSELF
HELP YOUR DOCTOR GET THROUGH THE MAZE OF DATA
TO MAKE THE CORRECT DIAGNOSIS.
RAVE REVIEWS
“this book is hilarious,
AND I DON’T EVEN HAVE CANCER.”
BRIAN DRUKER, Md
Director, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
“I LOVE THIS BOOK,
I GET ONE EVERY TIME I GET CANCER”
JIM RISWOLD, fake art maker
“CANCER IS AN ASSHOLE”
CHRIS LUNDY, soul surfer
LAUGHTER IS THE
BEST MEDICINE
tHIS BOOK CHANGEs THE WAY we DEAL WITH CANCER,
by DARing us TO FIGHT BACK WITH LAUGHTER.
it’s a COLLECTION OF FUN STUFF THAT WILL PUT A SMILE
ON YOUR FACE AND SOME WARMTH IN YOUR HEART.
AND... JUST ENOUGH DARK HUMOR
TO MAKE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD.
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