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Size: 5.5 x 8.25
Pages: 224
Illustrations: 1 b&w halftone

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Welcome to the Sh*t Show

A Memoir of Colorectal Cancer and the Power of Self-Advocacy

Shannon Ivey

Paperback

Published:

Hardcover
978-1-64336-635-7
Published: Feb 24 2026

$24.99

Ebook
978-1-64336-658-6
Published: Feb 24 2026

OA Ebook
978-1-64336-658-6
Published: Feb 24 2026

$0.00

The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of

For colorectal cancer patients, the people who love them, and the professionals who care for them, a clear-eyed account of one woman's fight to survive




Shannon Ivey MFA, AEA, PCC (she/they) is a queer, disabled, recovering theatre professor, union actor/director, and ICF-certified professional coach. She has performed essays on stage (story slams) for over a decade through her #whatshesaidproject and in Jasper Magazine's Fall Lines. Before the cancer diagnosis, Ivey authored and toured a South Carolina Arts Commission grant-funded one-woman show, "Natural Disasters of the Human Kind," about the vulnerability of birth and the 1,000-year flood in Columbia. Ivey, who spent five years as a professional development trainer in health and social service organizations, has a particular interest in patient/person-centered care. She has studied narrative medicine at Columbia University and is an empowered patient leader in Colontown, an online support group for people with colorectal cancer.

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