Finding Balance in Your Life

You may be the only one with a complete and up-to-date set of records.

Keeping Your Own Medical Records

by Jody Pelusi, PhD, FNP, AOCNP

 

It’s always a good idea for you to keep your own complete, updated medical records so you can play an active, informed role in your care. This is especially true after a cancer diagnosis. Though this may seem an overwhelming task at first, what you need may be simpler than you think.

I Have Cancer

by Kris Carr

Take a deep breath, get grounded, and center yourself. Like Alice in Cancerland, youʼre falling down a dark and creepy rabbit hole. Doctors are spewing lots of information, most of which probably goes in one ear and out the other. Why? Because when youʼre newly diagnosed with cancer, this is what you hear: “Blah, blah, CANCER, blah, blah, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, blah, blah, CANCER.”

Take Back Your Life

by Paula Holland De Long

None of us chooses to come face to face with our own mortality. But you and I have stared it in the face and gone on to ask, “What’s next?” Many cancer survivors feel compelled to live their lives differently in the wake of their cancer experience. Often, the priorities from your life before cancer don’t fit anymore; they just don’t feel right.