Fighting Cancer

Fighting Cancer

Wendy narrates her journey in fighting with primary brain cancer and undergoing treatment. Wendy’s condition started when she started forgetting details about things. Her friends, however, suggested that loss of memory was a normal condition. Luckily, her husband came in and encouraged her to stop listening to people and seek medical attention. Wendy had a diagnosis with a brain tumor and had to go through surgery, which took eight hours and got her staying in the hospital for a while (Stagnaro, 2019). The most challenging issue about her illness was her three children..

Wendy and her husband had to look for a social worker to help the children cope with the situation. The social worker used to talk to the children and helped them understand that being in the hospital was not a death sentence for their mother. To identify what they went through, the social worker gave the three children bracelets of different colors. Each bracelet indicated the mental struggle that the children went through each day. It was, therefore, easy for the social worker to talk to them, depending on what they went through. Wendy accepts that fighting cancer was excessively traumatizing. Radiations, medicines, and chemotherapy were tough to handle (Trejnowska et al., 2019). Wendy explains how she lost part of her hair to proton radiation. Besides, other side effects of the radiations included fatigue and swollen face.

According to Wendy, fighting cancer requires assistance from friends and family. Among the people who offered great help was her husband. He not only offered her a shoulder to lean on but also took care of their children all by himself. Wendy also received great support from her friends, who went to the extent of signing up to drive her to the hospital every time she went for chemotherapy. It made her feel loved and helped her heal faster (Stagnaro, 2019). Wendy also recognizes one friend who assisted in making T-shirts to campaign for her cancer journey. Seeing people wearing the T-shirts gave her hope. Besides, it made her feel that other people cared about her well-being. Other friends reached her through Facebook, encouraging her to fight on and press on. Towards the end of the interview, she explains how passionate she is in helping people going through cancer treatment.

References

Stagnaro, S. (2019). RE: Bedside Assessing Corpus Callosum Activity plays a central role in the fight against growing epidemics, like CVD, T2DM, Brain degenerative Disorders, and Cancer.

Trejnowska, A., Goodall, K., Rush, R., Ellison, M., & McVittie, C. (2019). The relationship between adult attachment and coping with brain tumor: the mediating role of social support. Psycho‐Oncology.