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Helping
Someone
with Breast Cancer
When you first find out that some you
know and care about has breast cancer, you just want to envelop them in prayers
and love. Here are some practical ways that we found useful
Offer to attend clinic sessions with
her, good company takes away the stress and worry
Take her out for lunch or tea, or
simply a drive out, it can get very boring staring at the same four walls.
Cook some homemade meals that can be
used immediately or frozen down
Offer to do her ironing.
Pamper her, wash and blow dry her
hair, paint her nails etc.
Give her a facial.
Treat her as normal, don’t fuss,
offer support and encouragement, but respect that she has to make her own
way through this.
As an employer, allow her to come
into work and complete a simple task – feeling needed is important and a
purpose to get up each day.
Make sure that she has met the
Breast Care Nurse.
If she wants information help her to
find it, otherwise don’t bombard her with info found on the internet etc – a
good hospital team will keep her up to date on all that is relevant to her.
Take her shopping or do her
shopping.
Offer to baby sit the children/walk
the dog.
Ask her what you can do for her.
Drive her to radiotherapy
appointments and make an outing of it, meal out etc.
Buy her some relaxation music.
Some points that we felt were definitely
unhelpful
Don’t ring her and tell her other
breast cancer stories and pass on your anxieties – she has enough to cope
with.
Making suggestions that other
hospitals may be better than the one she is attending/another surgeon better
qualified etc are not helpful – she needs to trust the team that she is
working with.
          
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