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Author Babcock, Elise NeeDell.

Title When life becomes precious : a guide for loved ones and friends of cancer patients / Elise NeeDell Babcock
Published New York : Bantam, 1997

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 MELB  362.196994 Bab/Wlb  AVAILABLE
Description xix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Eleven Common Reactions: Understanding Your Feelings When Cancer Strikes Someone You Care About -- Ch. 2. Why We Stop Talking When We Need to Start: How Our Fears Can Separate Us from Each Other -- Ch. 3. What Do I Say? How to Begin Talking to Someone Living with Cancer: 36 Guidelines -- Ch. 4. Along the Way: Keys to the Tougher Conversations -- Ch. 5. From the Goodness of Your Heart: 52 Gifts You Can Give -- Ch. 6. The One Who Needs You: Providing Comfort to the Primary Caregiver -- Ch. 7. Managing Cancer in the Workplace: Taking Care of Employees While Meeting Your Goals -- Ch. 8. Giving Without Giving Out: A Primary Caregiver's Guide to Well-Being -- Ch. 9. How to Support Your Children When Someone They Love Has Cancer: Sharing the News and Helping Them Understand -- Ch. 10. A Family Challenge: Overcoming the Long-Term Problems -- Ch. 11. Finding the Best Doctors: What You Can Do Before the First Appointment -- Ch. 12. Building a Winning Health Care Team
Ch. 13. Break the Rules: Enjoying or at Least Surviving Holidays
Subject Cancer -- Popular works.
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
LC no. 96030256
ISBN 0553378694