As a young mother-to-be, Sherrie finds a lump on her neck. After the birth of her child, the twenty-something is told she has Stage 4 cancer. Thus starts a nearly twenty-year cycle of illness and survival laced with love, motherhood, and a search for a cure. This factual account told in a first-person narrative chronicles Sherrie's fight to overcome obstacles placed in her path as she continues Picking Up the Pieces.