| Having a family member, friend or co-worker | | | | cancer treatment is one of the most helpful |
| battle against cancer is one of the hardest and | | | | things you can do, especially when there are |
| worst realities in life. No one likes to help someone | | | | children involved. Offer to take the children to |
| deal with cancer, but at some point almost all of | | | | school and pick them up, or invite the kids over |
| us will have the opportunity to walk beside | | | | to your house for frequent sleepovers during the |
| someone we care about through one of the most | | | | cancer treatment. It will be good for the parents |
| difficult times of their life: cancer treatment. | | | | and good for the kids to be separated during such |
| I have had the privilege (and I do mean privilege) | | | | a hard time. Involve the kids in doing something |
| of helping out both of my parents and one of my | | | | special for their parent who is in cancer |
| closest friends during their weeks and months of | | | | treatment. Take the kids to a boutique that |
| cancer treatments. At first I was quite intimidated | | | | allows you to paint your own pottery, for |
| and unsure of how to help in such serious and | | | | example. Help the kids make something |
| life-threatening situations. I thought because I | | | | memorable for their loved one. You can do simple |
| didn't know the perfect things to do that I couldn't | | | | things for the family of someone who is in cancer |
| do anything at all. Was I wrong. | | | | treatment like go grocery shopping, prepare |
| Some of the best ways to help out a friend or | | | | meals or take their family out to special meals. |
| loved one as their undergo cancer treatment is in | | | | Far too often people think that helping out during |
| the most practical ways. Don't look past how | | | | a time of crisis such as cancer treatment that |
| helpful cleaning their bathrooms, doing their dishes, | | | | they have to do extraordinary things. The truth is |
| or collecting their garbage can be. It is an amazing | | | | that it is the ordinary things that need to happen |
| thing to get down and dirty on behalf of someone | | | | long before anything else will be helpful. There is |
| else. Look around and simply see what needs to | | | | no doubt that dealing with cancer or undergoing |
| be done. Mow their lawn, plant some fresh | | | | cancer treatment is extremely hard. But the |
| flowers, or get their car cleaned on the inside and | | | | support and help of friends and families can make |
| out. | | | | even the worst things in life better. |
| Taking care of the family of the one getting | | | | |