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Home > About childhood cancer > Online Community >Below is a list of tips that have been sent to CLIC Sargent as part of a web survey we carried out earlier in the year. You can chose to read all of the tips, or filter them by the categories "just diagnosed" "hospital life" "home life" and "my life."
We hope they make interesting reading and inspire you to register with the site and add your own tips and stories to the site, so everyone can pass on the benefits of their own experiences.
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Parents
Name: Debbie
User Type: Parent or Guardian of Child With Cancer
Condition: Brain Tumours
Don't bottle up the emotions. Take each day at a time. When discussing treatment/procedures with the doctors it can be all too easy to forget what the they say the first time round. Don't be afraid to go back and speak to the Doctors and ...
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Positivity
Name: Adzilla
User Type: Survivor
Condition: Other Tumours
While i was going through treatment with my cancer the thing that kept me going was to stay positive. I know its hard to do but it really made a difference to me and helped me with all the down times i was having. it also made a difference to the ...
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Working with Cancer : A Guide for Employers
Name: undefined
User Type: Survivor
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I noted your development of a package of advice and practical tips for employers to help them reduce uncertainty for their organisation and employees when supporting parents caring for children with cancer. I am a founder member of 'Working with ...
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Fielding phone calls
Name: mo
User Type: Parent or Guardian of Child With Cancer
Condition: Wilms' Tumour
11 months before our two year old son was diagnosed with a Wilm's tumour my husband had a tumour in his stomach. Each night I arrived home from hospital the phone wouldn't stop ringing with friends and family wondering how he was and offering ...
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Name: Beverley
User Type: Other
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Tips that i hope will help
Name: Chrissie
User Type: Parent or Guardian of Child With Cancer
Condition:
First, always trust your gut instincts, they are usually right. Always make time for yourself. Never change the rules, always stay in control. Try to stay strong infront of your child When you want to cry, do it in 'your time' Be honest with ...
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Expect the unexpected
Name: Ian
User Type: Parent or Guardian of Child With Cancer
Condition: Acute Lymphobalstic Leukaemia
Although you will experience some terrible things that no-one should have to go through you will also experience amazing acts of love and kindness from the most unexpected quarters. You will never be on your own and should always accept these acts ...
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Name: AlisonP
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Enjoy the little things in life. Your priorities will be turned on their head and the things you once valued so highly will become insignificant. Take time to go for a walk in the woods, hear the birds sing, throw pebbles into the sea. It can be ...
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Name: AlisonP
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Take lots of photos, especially when times are bad. Your child (and you) can look back on the pictures later to prove to yourselves that he has got through it and is on the road to recovery. And in the event (heaven forbid) that he doesn't make it, ...
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Be positive
Name: Lj
User Type: Parent or Guardian of Child With Cancer
Condition: Acute Lymphobalstic Leukaemia
Be positive at all times keep your child positive and surrounded by positive people.Its essential for survival and sanity!! One year into treatment it keeps us all going. xx