Tools For Chaplains: Promote Dialogue with New Patients
How chaplains can promote dialogue and open communication with new patients.
Jumpstart The Cancer Talk With Children: How To Find Gratitude In Cancer – Part 4
Sharing gratitude not only helps the cancer survivor stay positive, it helps the whole family especially children.
How To Remember A Loved One Who Has Passed Away
How do you remember someone you loved? Try these suggestions.
Jumpstart Conversations Around Cancer with M.C. Plays Hide & Seek
How will you make this Thanksgiving meaningful? Need some new ideas to infuse quality into your time together as a family? After recovering from cancer and getting a second chance at life, I had regrets. I was so busy running children around, I didn’t take time to teach life values in a meaningful way. So, [...]
Stripped Of Dignity
Motivational Storyteller Eva Grayzel shares a personal story about patient care before major surgery and feeling stripped of her dignity
Keynote Speaker Stories Part 9: Laughter Is Medicine
“The name of the game is calories.” Dr. Vigneri, my radiation oncologist, informed me. “Forget what you’ve learned about healthy eating. I don’t care how you get those calories. Bulk up. I guarantee you will lose weight and you don’t have much to lose. Milkshakes with every meal. All the Haagen Daaz you can eat!” [...]
Keynote Speaker Stories Part 8: Oral Cancer, It’s a Thing
When I mention to people I had oral cancer, very often I am greeted with a dumbfounded expression and the comment, ‘Huh? That’s a thing?’ My eyebrows rise, my head tilts, I flash an all-knowing grin and nod. It's so remarkable that one can get cancer in the mouth, people genuinely want to know more [...]
Keynote Speaker Stories Part 4: To Life
On the auspicious and final day of radiation treatment, I left the treacherous terrain behind me and settled onto the road back to the rest of my life. Leaning on my husband's strength, we walked at a slow pace to the car. He opened the door for me as he always did since the day [...]
Keynote Speaker Stories Part 3: Hair Complex
In the hospital, during many long hours alone and in pain, the mind wanders. Since tissue from my hairy thigh replaced the forearm tissue which was moved to my tongue. Would thigh hair now grow on my inner wrist? Would arm hair now grow on my tongue? This was my worst nightmare! Would I have [...]
Keynote Speaker Stories Part 2: Owning My Scar
As anyone who has undergone a major surgery knows, all things familiar and safe immediately fall away. As the backward countdown begins, you find yourself crossing the threshold into a cold, dark space with room for only one. The clear path forward is to seek out signs pointing in the direction of hope. Once hope [...]