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Adolescents: The Forgotten Caregivers

June 22nd 2019

By Kathy LaTour

Cancer is a huge, life-changing event for a family and the power of the experience in a young person’s life should not be underestimated. What is a semester at college compared to the learning and self-understanding that comes from being with your family in such a stressful time?

The Girls: A Family Remembers Their Two Daughters Lost to Cancer

June 19th 2019

By Suzann B. Goldstein

What a force they were, those two daughters of ours: that little nine-year-old kid Valerie, gone from bone cancer and the more grown-up 37-year-old Stacy, cut off by breast cancer. When we talk of them, however, it is often with a slight grin.

Caregiving: Seeking Help and Knowing You Are Not Alone

June 11th 2019

By Kim Johnson

Just as we tell the person that we love enduring cancer that they are not alone, as caregivers, neither are we.

Holding Her Smile in His Heart Forever

June 5th 2019

By Guy Marini

A devoted husband and caregiver shares the poetry he wrote for his beloved wife, Mary Lee, after doctors gave her 18 to 36 months to live.

Acupuncture May Benefit Both Caregivers and Patients with Cancer

June 1st 2019

By Tamera Anderson-Hanna

My tips and experience as a new acupuncture patient follow as a potential guide to getting beyond any fear of the procedure and potentially understanding the benefits of multiple sessions.

Be Here Now

May 29th 2019

By Kim Johnson

Remembering to remain present through cancer.

Two Lost People and an Angel

May 19th 2019

By Maria Campos

This essay was written by Maria Campos nominating Mary Kernan, RN, OCN, of Smilow Cancer Center At Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, Connecticut, for CURE®'s Extraordinary Healer® Award.

Taking Things One Day at a Time

May 18th 2019

By Alvin David, B.S.N., RN-BC

"Alvin David, B.S.N., RN-BC, wrote this exemplar as part of his promotion to clinical nurse 3. I will let his words do the talking, as they reveal his true essence as a nurse, colleague, preceptor, friend, father, husband and extraordinary healer," wrote Margie McDonald, M.S.N., RN, CBCN of Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth.

Overnight Caregiver: Two Husbands Embrace Caregiving for Wives with Lung Cancer

May 7th 2019

By Dara Chadwick

Two husbands embrace changing and challenging roles at home when they learn of their spouses’ cancer diagnoses.

Managing Survivorship One Foot and Breath in Front of Another

April 24th 2019

By Tamera Anderson-Hanna

Being a caregiver and survivor takes adjusting to the diagnosis of the "C" word. Until there is a cure for cancer, may we all do our best to put one breath and foot in front of another.