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A difficult note to write… | Our Cancer

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A difficult note to write…. August 3rd, 2015. By Laurie Singer Sievers. She's been gone many weeks now and I just couldn't write the sympathy note to her husband. I was stuck. Her death put a dent in my heart and it just was too painful to sit down and put pen to paper. And then, for some reason, today was the day. Half of that group of six is gone. HALF of that group died young. Cancer took half of that group away. There are two widows and a widower left to remember. VN:F [1.9.17 1161]. You can use these.

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Celebrating The Ways Cancer Patients Add Life to Their Days. Wednesday August 24th 2016. Subscribe to our mailing list. Enter your email address to keep up with the latest stories and news from Seize the Days. 8220;The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens… the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.”. Help support Seize the Days. 50 will pay to archive an interview of a cancer survivor.

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Another trial…another response…. | Our Cancer

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Another trial…another response…. July 29th, 2015. By Laurie Singer Sievers. Suzanne is a cancer patient I have written about before and if she continues to stump her cancer, I'll hopefully be able to write about her for a long time to come. She's done it again, or maybe I should say, her doctors and she have done it again. Everything is stable or shrinking.". I call her the cancer warrior woman. Way to go cancer warrior woman. VN:F [1.9.17 1161]. Rating: 0.0/ 5. Comment… read it below or add one. Walking...

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The best and worst month… | Our Cancer

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The best and worst month…. July 15th, 2015. By Laurie Singer Sievers. Leroy would begin the last month of his life on this day, seven years ago. He hadn't moved to the hospital bed in the family room yet, but I'd finally been persuaded to accept the fact that I couldn't take care of him alone anymore, so I had some health care aides visit during the daytime hours to help me. I hated it. This was another mark on cancer's side of the scorecard. It was the best month and it was the worst month. The disease ...

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Our Cancer Archives | Our Cancer

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Our Cancer Archives.by Laurie Singer Sievers. How hard you fought to live. We would hear about your fierce strength from Al every now and then and we would pull with you. Many of us know about backing-up our cancer fighters. I'm sure your family did what we had to do with the hope that it meant one more day of life. Every morning, I would whisper to myself, a little message to Leroy."please live." He tried so hard to do that, just like you did. The grief is cancer's whiplash. Rest in peace dear girl.

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It’s a calling, not a job… | Our Cancer

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It’s a calling, not a job…. July 28th, 2015. By Laurie Singer Sievers. I met a young woman today who reminded me how lucky we are to have "angels in waiting" in cancer world. Taylor is about to begin her masters program in social work. She wants to find a job in a hospital setting and to be even more specific, she wants to work with cancer patients. I asked her if she was aware of how tough a road that can be and with her back straightened and without hesitation, she answered, "yes.". Rating: 0.0/ 5.

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Just below the calm…. | Our Cancer

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Just below the calm…. July 14th, 2015. By Laurie Singer Sievers. Where do we get our calm? When we first hear the words, "You have cancer" everything goes into over-drive. Our hearts race, sometimes there's tears, our muscles get tense and there's a brain freeze right after those words fill the room. We want immediate action too. Once you've asked the doctor how much time you have left and what the odds are that you can beat it, we ask about treatment: NOW. And then we calm down. We find our courage.

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Speak, so we can understand … | Our Cancer

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Speak, so we can understand …. July 16th, 2015. By Laurie Singer Sievers. I'm on a bit of a rant this afternoon. Twice this week I've had calls from friends who have asked for a translation. Their cancer doctors have spoken to them about their disease, but they've talked "around" the message. In fact, my friends have asked me what certain terms mean because these doctors couldn't come to grips with speaking openly and in street language and not "medical speak.". That is one question I can not answer.

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Can’t live without them…. May 12th, 2016. By Laurie Singer Sievers. It's National Nurses Appreciation Week. Any one who has stepped into cancer world knows what it means to appreciate nurses. We could not have navigated this complicated journey without our nurses. There is not one story, but hundreds if not thousands of them and they all circle back to a nurse and the kindness and understanding they provided us each step of the way. The more I think about it, a week is not nearly enough. May 10th, 2016.