Can you write another article which gives positive statement suggestions to say to elderly parents where one is battling cancer? After reading your column, I see I have been guilty of saying things I thought were loving and helpful!
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I have been following your blog for some time now and have found it quite informative and also interesting and you have very nice way of expressing the article.The good advantages of this article is giving good thought to each and every readers and also it's giving good impressions.Looking forward to another article.
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Skornia Alison, thank you for the article, I can agree to just about everything you wrote as I had cancer. I know people mean well, but sometimes I was more upset after the conversation. My sig other would say to me "just relax" and those became fighting words for me.... relax? yeah right? There is no relaxing going through this nightmare.

The best thing anyone had said to me was by a good friend when she first heard I had cancer, she said "that must suck big time". And she got it right.

As for those good people asking if they could do something for me, I would always say no because I was too shy to ask for help. What I needed was someone to show up at the door, no nonsense, with food or a vacuum cleaner saying they are here to help and I can't stop them :)
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