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- RC262.M250.1 - Dying Bald
The Masked Patient -
Some prefer to die as themselves, not as Cancer Patient 573607, and a bald head DEFINITELY gets in the way of their normal self-image. And its's easy to focus on the dismay of being bald and dying, rather than the fear and sadness of dying.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/bald.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.M489.1 - Still in the Ball Game
Edward Madison - I have been afraid of being a living dead person not dying. What concerns me is the quality of life. The awakening of love, The audacity to dream, The will to live.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/ballgame.html
Link added 2008-09-19
- RC262.P117.1 - Let-down After Test Results
Karolen I. Paularena - About feeling depressed about good news. I think this is very common, based on what I've read here and what I've felt and what I've been told by others with cancer.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/let-down.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.P117.2 - The Median Isn't the Message
Karolen I. Paularena - But YOU will either respond to the therapy, or YOU will not. YOU will live, or YOU will die.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/median.html
Link added 2006-05-21; - RC262.P324.1 - Diversions - Creativity And Coping
Cynthia Perlis, BA; Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD; Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA - Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, love promote health
and prolong life. A contented mind, a cheerful spirit is health to the
body and strength to the soul. How you live has a major effect on your
health and your life
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/diversions.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.P324.2 - Art And Longevity
Cynthia Perlis, BA, Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Douglas Wallace, PhD - Art is a healing force. Artistic expression is an important psychosocial activity to communicate and alleviate stress.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/art.html
Link added 2010-01-02; - RC262.R32.1 - Nothing personal, but keep your advice to yourself
Bob Riter - The best support a friend or family member can provide is not to give advice, but to listen without judgment or agenda.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/advice.html
Link added 2008-10-30; - RC262.R68.1 - Inner Fire: Your Will to Live -
Stories of Courage, Hope, and Determination
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA - The will to live is in both your heart and your mind. Common factors for the will to live - hope, faith, attitude, determination, the love of life, courage, luck and chance, the ability to cope, a support system, having a purpose, and appropriate medical care.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/index.html
Link added 2006-11-25; reviewed 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.2 - Inner Fire: Your Will to Live Introduction
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA, and David Spiegel, MD -
Inner Fire factors include: hope, faith, attitude, determination, the love of life, courage, luck, chance, the ability to cope, a support system, having goals, and appropriate medical care
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/begin.html
Link added 2006-11-25; reviewed 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.3 - Introduction To Climb A Mountain
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA -
Expedition Inspiration to conquer Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside the Himalayas inspired hope and courage in women with breast cancer...Count me in. I've got a lot more to live for and a lot more to give in this life.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/climb.html
Link added 2006-11-25; reviewed 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.4 - Unfinished Business
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA -
We live because we want to live. But the incentive must one which we inwardly, utterly believe. It is not the everything to live for in the eyes of the world that keeps us alive, but the something which meets our own uncompromising measure of what is worth living for.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/intro2.html
Link added 2007-03-21; reviewed 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.5 - Achieving Optimal Care for Cancer Patients
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Optimal coping mechanisms, and psychological and emotional support decrease feelings of anxiety and depression, provide encouragement. Supportive help for patient, family and friends can often make a difficult situation not only feasible but a very gratifying process through a joint sharing of responsibility between the patient, family, friends and medical team.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/optimal.html
Link added 2007-09-18; - RC262.R68.6 - Caregivers
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Caregiving includes providing nutritional and emotional support, and assisting with exercise. By knowing how to talk to the ill person, caregivers promote confidence, courage and hope that is vital to help patients cope with their illness and with the process of getting well.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/Survivor/caregiver.html
Link added 2007-12-06; reviewed 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.7 - Putting On The Boxing Gloves
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA -
We need courage. dignity, and optimism to meet our challenges in life with hope that we can overcome whatever obstacles are present.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/intro3.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.8 - The Power Of Love: Family And Friends
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA -
Our health suffers if we lack social contact. because of their love for their friends and family that people persevere in the face of a grave illness or a life-threatening situation.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/intro4.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.9 - A Positive Attitude
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA -
Hope is the most beautiful of affections energizing the prolongation of life. Medical researchers are now combining methods to create in the mind positive images about what is occurring in the body with traditional medicine. Attitude can make the difference.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/positive.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.10 - The Will to Live
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA -
Hope is the most beautiful of affections energizing the prolongation of life. Medical researchers are now combining methods to create in the mind positive images about what is occurring in the body with traditional medicine. Attitude can make the difference.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/fire.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.R68.11 - The Philosophy of Caretaking for an Ill Person
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Caretakers give compassionate care, listen, help and create hope. Conversations encourage positive feelings, leaving a legacy of love, good memories, sharing of values and philosophy. Is it fair to consider palliative care or euthanasia. Feelings of sadness and helplessness ocur as patient, caregiver and the medical team struggle with progressive, terminal illness and enter the dying phase.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/caretake.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.R68.12 - Caregivers - Sources of Strength
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Caregivers hope to comfort, control suffering, and pain, provide physical and emotional support for patients and family with medical and spiritual support. Caretaking can cause devastating emotional, physical, financial, stress, depression, fatigue, and mental problems. Includes - Goals of the Legacy Project, sources of strength, dignity therapy, services that enhance quality of life, and peace of mind.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/caregive.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.R68.13 - Caregivers - Sources of Strength
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Caregivers hope to comfort, control suffering, and pain, provide physical and emotional support for patients and family with medical and spiritual support. Caretaking can cause devastating emotional, physical, financial, stress, depression, fatigue, and mental problems. Includes - Goals of the Legacy Project, sources of strength, dignity therapy, services that enhance quality of life, and peace of mind.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/caregive.html
Link added 2008-09-24; - RC262.R68.14 - Achieving Optimal Care for Cancer Patients
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Supportive help for patient, family and friends can often make a difficult situation not only feasible but a very gratifying process through a joint sharing of responsibility between the patient, family, friends and medical team.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/optimal.html
Link added 2008-10-30; - RC262.R68.15 - Depression
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD -
Reduce your doubts, work out ways to feel good about yourself. Doctors should not just be fighting the tumor but helping the people with the disease to live with it.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/depression.html
Link added 2008-11-15; - RC262.R68.16 - The Role of Music In Health
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, Jim Murdock and Malin Dollinger, MD -
Music offers immediate gratification. There are no contraindications to music. Music helps emotional recovery, relaxation, communication, coordination - using dancing and physical therapy rehabilitation. It reduces medical therapy anxiety and stress.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/music.html
Link added 2010-01-02; - RC262.R68.17 - Humor and Health
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, Malin Dollinger, MD and Stu Silverstein, MD -
A contented mind, a cheerful spirit is health to the body and soul. A smile, humor and laughter have been found to reduce anger, fear, anxiety, depression, illness, pain, stress, increase energy, healing, relaxation, and happiness. Helping people cope and produce improved relations among family members and friends.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/humor.html
Link added 2010-01-02; - RC262.R561.1 - Stress and Survival
Alan Rosenstein, MD - Stress has profound effects on the way we feel. Disease or disorder stressors may vary. Effects of chronic turmoil can produce wear and tear which will eventually have an impact on longevity of the body.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/stressor.html
Link added 2010-01-02;
- RC262.S327.2 - Courage and Hope
David Spiegel, MD - Respond creatively to a life-threatening illness hear it as a wake-up call, a reminder of how time is short and life is precious.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/courage.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2007-07-07 - RC262.S349.1 - The Relationship Between Mind, Body and Soul
Rabbi Jeffery M. Silberman, DMin and Lisa Tremont, MPH, RD - Spirituality, faith and prayer improves mental health, happiness, quality of life, and longevity, reducing the risk for heart disease and cancer. Clinicians have long observed that patients with a strong personal faith recover better and live longer than those without such resources.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/soul.html
Link added 2010-01-02; - RC262.S434.1 - Arms Too Short to Box with God
Val Staton - The will to live is the desire to continue on... A person who has the comfort of faith and the ability to accept and continue on is much better off than somebody who is only materially wealthy.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/box.html
Link added 2007-07-07 - RC262.S491.1 - A Broken Window Every Day
Maria Smith, Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Leef Smith - Go on with life with real strength, have confidence in those who care about you. I think one of the worst things is for people to go for treatment every week feeling they are in a cold, steel world. I had my husband and my doctor to comfort me.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/window.html
Link added 2008-04-24 - RC262.S497.1 - Live Life to the Fullest
Sam - Because of my physical disabilities, but I fight harder because I have someone I love. I want to live life to the fullest. There is life and there is death. If you come into this world and do nothing, You will die and no one will know you existed.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/fullest.html
Link added 2008-09-19; - RC262.S498.1 - A Tough Old Bird
Ruth Smith -
Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success. The will to live? It is knowing that you can do something for someone else. That keeps you going.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/bird.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.T493.1 - One in a Million
Connie Teevan - I want to make my own destiny. My destiny is to live. This is just my life. I'm going to live. I'm going to make it.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/million.html
Link added 2008-09-19 - RC262.T494.1 - The Scent of an Orange
Jane Townsend - We can be joyful in life and cope with the challenges of disease at the same time. Openness is the acknowledgment that your future will be different than the one you had dreamed.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/orange.html
Link added 2008-09-19
- RC262.W16.1 - Caregivers...must...venting
Antony William, Caregiver to Carol Lindop - You asked: two questions: How do you cope with what you read, but do not share? How do you deal with family members who run or hide
http://www.cancerlynx.com/caregiver.html
Link added 2008-09-24; - RC262.Y134.1 - Caring: For Self and Others
Reverend Linda Yates - Remember, you have cancer, it is a costly disease emotionally. Therefore, you might as well do the thing that results in the greater good - improvement of your over all health. This can not be done, unless you decide to do it... A curious thing happens to those around a person when that person gets cancer; they are sure that suddenly the person will get it
http://www.cancerlynx.com/selfcare.html
Link added 2009-01-25; - RC262.Y495.1 - An Inner Fire
Susan Yoachum - The will to live is a feeling of not being through yet. I have a very clear idea of the special quality of each day I have metastatic breast cancer an incurable illness. It can go into remission. I am forging an uneasy peace with this cancer that defies answers.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/InnerFire/inner.html
Link added 2008-09-20;
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