Are you having bad days coping with lockdown and feeling like breaking out? Cancer patients often have bad days. They blame themselves for upsetting the people they love, worry they are a burden or envious of their friend’s good health. Just like in lockdown some days can bring feelings you’re not used to dealing with. Cancer …
Thursday, 4 February 2021 is World Cancer Day, the “official” awareness day for promoting wider understanding and support of ALL cancers. World Cancer Day “2021 – the ultimate year of the ‘I Am and I Will’ campaign – shows us that our actions have an impact on everyone around us, within our neighbourhoods, communities and cities. And that more …
February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month held each year in Australia to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, to share the stories of real women affected by the disease, to highlight the risk factors for ovarian cancer and educate Australians on ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment. Each day, four women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and …
If your family member or friend is going to chemotherapy treatments become a treatment ‘Buddy.” You may not be able to do all appointments but when you can your company can make treatment just a bit more tolerable. A patient can spend hours of boredom going through chemotherapy infusions, long waits to see a doctor or waiting …
Friday, 2nd August, 2019 is Jeans for Genes Day raising funds for childhood genetic diseases in style by donning a pair of your best jeans. 1 in 20 Aussie kids face a birth defect or genetic disease. Kids just want to be kids, but instead of playing sports with their friends or catching butterflies on a sunny day, …
Carergivers are the unpaid loved ones who provide support, physical and emotional care care to the cancer patient. This maybe for a few hours a week or all day every day. They often experience caregiver stress and can be vulnerable to changes in their own health due to juggling their lives, looking after the patient and their responsibilities too. Don’t forget to …
You’re having a bad day and blame yourself for upsetting the people you love, worry you’re a burden or envious of your friend’s good health. Some days can bring feelings you’re not used to dealing with. It can be something very simple and inconsequential that turns a day from okay to awful. But there are times when it’s …
We support National Carers Week,14- 20 October. Its a week about recognising and celebrating the outstanding contribution unpaid carers make to our nation. Carers may be family, a neighbour or a friend providing support and direct care maybe for a few hours a week or all day every day. Carers become stressed out trying to juggle their lives …
When a loved one or friend develops cancer you can feel helpless and worried if you live far away. You should not use kilometres as a reason not to provide valuable support and assistance. Distance doesn’t have to mean “distant.” Stay in touch through our emails, phone calls, cards, gifts, and positive notes. Emotional support and concern …
You’re having a bad day and blame yourself for upsetting the people you love, worry you’re a burden or envious of your friend’s good health. Some days can bring feelings you’re not used to dealing with. Cancer patients say sometimes they just need to give in to their feelings, maybe shed a few tears and crawl into bed …
