By Your Side Through Treatment: Spouse Cancer Caregiver Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe caring for a husband, wife or partner through cancer. The writers include a long-haul trucker driving to every appointment in Scranton, a London bus driver whose wife has multiple myeloma, two retired nurses in Perth, a seamstress in Kampala and a taxi driver in Minneapolis interpreting at the bedside. They write from Dayton to Lagos, Osaka, Cape Town and Lyon, about breast, prostate, pancreatic, lung, ovarian, testicular, and head and neck cancers among others. They describe learning stoma care, feeding through a tube, steroid mood swings, a protective unit where a palm on the glass had to do, Ramadan on a chemotherapy schedule, asking about fertility before treatment, and a dining table buried in forms. Several tell what they said to the children, how they handled relatives full of advice, and how hard it was to accept a casserole. Newlyweds sit beside couples married more than fifty years. Some partners recovered, some live with cancer from scan to scan, and some died, in accounts of hospice at home, a brain tumour that changed a husband's personality, and pancreatic cancer that moved very fast. Others describe the quiet that settled in a marriage after treatment ended.

Who it's for

For husbands, wives and partners sitting beside someone through cancer treatment, and for the family and friends who want to understand what that chair asks of the person in it.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 241 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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