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Talking With Family and Friends About Your Loved One’s Cancer
October 16, 2024It can be tiring and overwhelming for people with cancer to repeatedly tell people about their cancer. It can help to have someone else communicate with others. This lets the person with cancer focus on treatment, recovery, and other things that are important to them. Family and friends may be curious and concerned. They may want frequent updates. Don’t put pressure on yourself to provide updates every time something happens.
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Feeling Too Tired: Caregiving and Fatigue
October 14, 2024Caring for a loved one with cancer can be exhausting. This kind of fatigue is tiredness that may have little to do with your physical activity or sleep.
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Feeling Sad or Depressed
October 14, 2024People with cancer and their caregivers are under a lot of pressure. Coping with treatments, side effects, and related anxieties can be hard.
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Feeling Nervous or Afraid
October 11, 2024About half of all people with cancer say they feel some anxiety. One-fourth report feeling a great deal of anxiety. Nervousness and fear are common reactions to stressful life events like cancer.
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Feeling Lonely or Isolated
October 11, 2024Caregivers of people with cancer can feel alone even around people who care about them. They may feel separated from their usual work or social activities. Their loved one’s illness or treatment may keep them from their usual life.
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Feeling Guilty
October 10, 2024The burden on caregivers is often a silent one. Support is frequently given to the person with cancer, while the caregiver feels a variety of emotions in the background. Guilt can be motivating or debilitating. Your control comes in how you respond to it.
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Exercise and Being Physically Active
October 8, 2024Exercise or physical activity can be an important part of improving your physical and emotional health while supporting your loved one with cancer.
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Coordinating Medical Care for Your Loved One
October 8, 2024You may find yourself in an unfamiliar role when caring for a loved one with cancer: Care Coordinator. You may be managing schedules, medications, appointments, contacts, resources, insurance, bills, and more. This new coordinator role can be challenging. However, it is a vital part of being a caregiver.
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Balancing Caregiving With Other Demands
October 8, 2024Being a caregiver to someone diagnosed with cancer can be quite the juggling act. Roles, responsibilities, and commitments that were in place before cancer don’t just go away. No one checks their schedule for a good place to fit in this vital, yet time-consuming role.
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When It Is Time to Consider Respite Care
October 1, 2024Respite care is not self-indulgent. It’s a necessity. Caring for an older or ill family member can be hugely rewarding and bring you closer—but being consumed by it will drain you physically and emotionally, and eventually cause burnout.
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