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Articles by Dave Balch, founder of the Patient/Partner Project Announcements |
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Six L’s of Caring and Coping- Keep Friends and Family in the Loop
June 30, 2007
by Dave Balch, Founder of The Patient/Partner Project
As caregiver, one of the most
difficult things for me was keeping everyone informed about my wife’s
progress. We would come home from a
grueling day of medical appointments or tests to sometimes find as many as 14
messages on our answering machine from well-meaning people that truly cared,
who wanted to know “How is she feeling?” or “What did the doctor say?” or
“What’s next?”
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Six L’s of Caring and Coping- Look Forward to Something
June 6, 2007
by Dave Balch, Founder of The Patient/Partner Project
During the darkest hours of my
wife’s chemotherapy we received a postcard from a friend who was on vacation in
Tahiti. It depicted a string of
bungalows stretching out across a beautiful blue-green lagoon, all framed by
palm trees. It was dreamy, to say the
least, and couldn’t have been any further from where we were at the moment we
received it, both physically and emotionally.
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Six L’s of Caring and Coping- Live in the Moment
March 26, 2007
by Dave Balch, Founder of The Patient/Partner Project
Dealing
with cancer is not just about cancer; it’s about life with cancer. It’s about all of the stresses, joys, and
responsibilities you already had in your life in addition to the new
stresses and responsibilities that come with serious illness. It’s easy to get bogged down.
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Six L’s of Caring and Coping -
January 28, 2007
by Dave Balch, Founder of The Patient/Partner Project
One of
the most important things you can do to cope with the stress of serious illness
is to laugh. I’m not saying that cancer
is funny; it isn’t. You can, however,
find plenty of humor in some of the situations that you find yourself in
because of the cancer. Focus your
attention there, find something to laugh about, and laugh your head off. Here are some examples from our experience.
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Six L’s of Caring and Coping
January 6, 2007
by Dave Balch, Founder of The Patient/Partner Project
When the
breast cancer diagnosis first came down, we both went into shock. The first thing we were sure of was that we
weren’t sure of anything, and that we had no idea what was coming. How serious was it? Will she have to go through
chemotherapy? Will she lose her
breast? How long will all of this take? What’s next?
Is she going to die? In
retrospect, the “not knowing” was the most frightening thing of all, so my
advice as a caregiver is to take charge and learn as much as you can about your
situation; and do it immediately.
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