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Caregivers
Archives for February 2004
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searching for materials to develop caregiver program
I am an oncology social worker working to develop programs for our cancer center's caregivers (both local and long-distance). Many of the materials I am finding describe the prblems caregivers face or are too impractical (take a 2 day vacation-well duh, if you had that free time, you probably wouldn't be tired). I'm…
What can nurses do to better help you?
I am an RN student and I would like to know what the nurses who care for you could do to better help you? I'm anxious to get your feedback! Please reply!
Help what should I do, all the rules are different!
I feel like I have stumbled into a strange world, through circumstances of life,work, and distance I have become a primary care giver to my sister in law (the wife of my husbands brother..)who I must admit over the serveral years we've been family there has been some underlying resentment on her part made worse by her…
I thought my husband would not survive....
My husband is a survivor of Burkitt's lymphoma. His experience with this illness was not easy. What started as a tooth ache ended up being a tumor on the left side of his neck. He was treated a Umass in Worcester with a protocol chemotherapy treatment that was made up of 6 chemo sessions and finally a bone marrow…
Watching my mother die
My mother has breast cancer, she got a clean bill of health 1 year ago. Our family just found out the cancer spread, Everywhere they have given her 6 months to live that is with chemo. The chemo may or may not work. My mothers health is just going down hill so fast. She has had two chemo treatments so far. I need to know…
G-D B;ess you all
May G-d's light take care of you all and be with you through out your lives.