And after the grueling treatment process and the overwhelming emotional toll of having cancer, the goal is to encourage you to exercise. Working out can be the last thing you may want to think about especially on the days when you barely want muster up the energy to open your eyes. Overcoming the feeling of weakness, exhaustion, fatigue and emotionally drained, exercising is essential to the healing/recovery process.
Here's a great presentation filled with detail information on exercising by Donna Wilson RN and fitness instructor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
While each journey is unique, we all share a common theme - cancer changes our lives forever.
The Day That Changed My Life celebrated our 1st Anniversary on Saturday October 15th and as we plan for the return to the Off Broadway stage next year, we continue to look for the stories that shares a real human touch to this disease. Recently, there have been many efforts in bringing awareness to cancer and as October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the walks, runs, campaigns and even movies are great efforts to highlight the need to be an active member in the fight against breast cancer.
The movie Five directed by Demi Moore, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Aniston, Penelope Spheeris and Patty Jenkins is an anthology of five short films that highlights the impact of breast cancer. It was great and it may remind you somewhat of the play. If you have missed it, you can see it here --> Five
This week we share the journey of New York's Channel 7 Eyewitness News reporter Stacey Sager who after beating breast cancer, now has to deal with ovarian cancer.
While each journey is unique, we all share a common theme cancer changes our lives forever.
Esophageal Cancer is a cancer of the esophagus. The esophagus is the muscular tube that moves the food from the mouth to the stomach. While the main goal is to remove the cancer through surgery, some treatments includes chemotherapy, radiation or a combination of both.
Keep in mind each journey is different and these features are not endorsements of any medical facility, physician or course of treatment. Our best effort is to give you hope as you listen to those who have faced the disease and survived:
So are we on to a hot topic or what? I'd say we're scorching. The controversy of our previous post has picked up with the recent coverage on Dateline exploring Suzanne Somers claims of what worked for her through her journey with cancer. We're following this topic closely. Watch these experts as they share from their professional perspective:
And after the grueling treatment process and the overwhelming emotional toll of having cancer, the goal is to encourage you to exercise. Working out can be the last thing you may want to think about especially on the days when you barely want muster up the energy to open your eyes. Overcoming the feeling of weakness, exhaustion, fatigue and emotionally drained, exercising is essential to the healing/recovery process.
