Cancer Care Packages

In loving memory of my Daddy, Johnny the Greek, my favorite companion.

February 5, 1947 - April 27, 2025

May we honor your memory by our service to other cancer patients.

A cancer diagnosis is devastating and overwhelming as well as exhausting for the patient and family.  Our Cancer Companions have taken care of a family member with cancer and have been through this already.  They are here to walk you through the process from the first diagnosis and doctor's appointment all the way through treatments. When you need someone to take care of you, your Cancer Companion will take care of the stressful parts so that you can focus on your treatment and healing. 

    • Attend the initial doctor's appointments with you

    • Help schedule all appointments moving forward

    • Attend the oncologist appointment and keep notes of the steps you
      need to take moving forward

    • Keep all documents in a binder updated for you

    • Call you with medication reminders

    • Assist with putting reminders in your smartphone

    • Take you to treatments

    • Advocate for your needs and wishes to be heard for medical treatment

    • Assist you with walking or push your wheelchair

    • Make sure you have brought healthy snacks and a water bottle with
      you to treatments (sometimes you will be at the hospital long
      stretches on treatment days)

    • Make sure you have a change of clothes (sometimes people get upset stomachs)

    • Help find and make arrangements for attending cancer support groups
      (in-person or online)

    • Help with navigating palliative care and/or hospice care

    • Encourage you to do light exercise daily and take walks with you

    • Be your friend because cancer is awful and you will need lots of
      care and encouragement

    • Provide light housekeeping including laundry

    • Meal preparation

    • Help with bathing and dressing

    • Help with your pet

    • We are highly educated.  All of us have college degrees, and many of
      us have Master's degrees. We are very familiar and are able to explain
      what the doctor says in terms that you can understand if you are
      confused or overwhelmed.  Teachers know how to absorb information,
      make sense of it, and break it down to teach it to someone else.  We
      have decades of experience doing that.

    • We are extremely organized - Our high school teachers have managed
      over 150 students' schedules every year, kept up with grades,
      meetings, due dates, etc.

    • We are emotionally and mentally tough - We have been in the trenches
      and cared for kids with emotional issues, family problems, and we have
      seen and heard it all.  Cancer doesn't scare us!

    • We have had a family member or close friend with cancer and we have
      been their caregiver.  We match you up with a teacher who has been a
      caregiver for someone with cancer and has experience with this
      process.  We know what it's like to love someone with cancer, and we
      are committed to being there for you like we were for our loved one.
      This isn't a job to us; it's personal.

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