Losing a Spouse During Cancer Treatment: ‘If You Are Alive, Then You Need to Live’

September 30, 2021
Jamie Cesanek
Jamie Cesanek

Jamie Cesanek, Assistant Web Editor for CURE®, joined the team in March 2021. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington, where she studied journalism and minored in sociology and French. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, running, or enjoying time with friends and family. Email her at jcesanek@curetoday.com.

A woman explains how she received a lung cancer diagnosis while she was caring for her sick husband and what it was like to lose him in this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast.

While she was in the middle of caring for her sick husband, Patti Morelli received another piece of earth-shattering information: she had stage 4 lung cancer.

In this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast, Morelli describes her treatment process, how she dealt with her husband’s death and how she leaned on herself to keep going.

“Everybody has a time clock in this world,” Morelli said. “We don't know when it's going to end. And if you are alive, then you need to live. And that's one thing I've always done. I've never been a depressed person. I've always pushed through things.”

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