Coping with Cancer, Part 9 - Resources for the Patient and Family

This is the final installment of a 9 part series dealing with the cancer diagnosis. It contains information about how to find resources, advocacy, financial and emotional assistance and medical support in your own community, within the government, on the web and from non-profit organizations.

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Coping with Cancer, Part 8 - Living Each Day

This is installment 8 of a 9 part series dealing with the dreaded cancer diagnosis.  Each person must work through, in his or her own way, feelings of possible death, fear, and isolation. Returning to normal routines as much as possible often helps.  Give the pleasures and responsibilities of each day the attention they deserve.

While the subject matter of this series is the process of dealing with cancer, the principles contained here can be used for many kinds of serious and life-threatening health problems. This perspective is most appropriate for this installment.

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Coping with Cancer, Part 7 - The Cancer Patient and the Outside World

 

This is installment 7 of a 9 part series dealing with the dreaded cancer diagnosis. 

Cancer (or for that matter, any catastrophic medical diagnosis) is a blow to every family it touches. How it is handled is determined to a great extent by how the individual and his / her sphere of friends has functioned as a unit in the past. 

Some friends will deal well with your illness and provide gratifying support. Some will be unable to cope with the possibility of death and will disappear from your life. Most will want to help but may be uncomfortable and unsure of how to go about it. You can help your friends support you: 

Ask yourself, "Have friends deserted me or have I withdrawn from them?" 

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