Radio Smart Talk for Wednesday, November 30:
If you go to witf's Facing Cancer Together web page, you'll see the words, "Connecting Stories, Connecting Lives" right after the title. What we've learned since the initiative began last Spring is those diagnosed with cancer battle through their treatments and the changes in their lives with support from family, friends and the doctors and nurses who treat them. Making connections is a large part of that support.
Every cancer survivor we've met talks about the people they've gotten to know who helped them or inspired them to survive and beat the disease or to get back to a normal way of life.
Often, a survivor's experience motivated them to help others being treated for cancer. On Wednesday's Radio Smart Talk, we'll meet two women who did just that -- they survived cancer and now they are there for others.
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After her death, no one from her large family came to visit me and our two boys who were 10 and 15... . . I later asked why they didn't which seemed so strange to me at the time. Since I was grief-stricken I felt even more alone without that familial connection but in my pride did not reach out to them, thinking they didn't want me to.
The stigma of cancer kept them from being able to interact with us, I later learned---had it been a traffic accident it would have been "normal" they told me, and they would have known how to react..... very strange how an organic illness is perceived as abnormal.
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