Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - (Page 19) beginnings don’t ju st su Wendy Schlessel Harpham felt caught up in the excitement of watching her second-grade son, William, stride from the dugout to home plate during a softball game. “William can be the winning run!” she said exuberantly, squeezing one arm tight around each of her daughters, Jessica and Rebecca. “Dr. Harpham, I’m amazed,” said a woman seated directly behind the then-43-year-old internal medicine specialist. Looking puzzled, the woman stumbled, “How can you be happy when you … ?” Her voice halted before she ended the sentence, “… have cancer.” “Word spread quickly whenever I was back in treatment for the lymphoma that had been plaguing me since soon after my thirty-sixth birthday seven years earlier,” Harpham writes in her latest book, Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor (W.W. Norton, 2005). Harpham smiled briefly at the woman she barely knew and suddenly realized she indeed was happy. During her bouts with recurrent lymphoma, she discovered how to be a “healthy survivor,” a term she uses to fresh with these tips on becoming a describe a “wholeness of body, mind and spirit.” It’s about getting high-quality care—and living as fully as possible while undergoing cancer treatment, despite its many side effects. “As a healthy survivor, you’re making your life the best it can be—and accepting what is,” she says. “You embrace all of your emotions, but you don’t get stuck in them.” Indeed, cancer treatment can be an arduous journey through moments of nausea, fatigue, hair loss, depression and fear, but patients can triumph over them. Find out how with this life-changing advice from Harpham and American Cancer Society (ACS) experts. “hea lt h y su lori k. baker o r ” by rviv rv —t ive hrive— during cancer treatment k keep it down While nausea and vomiting are two of the most dreaded side effects of chemotherapy, Angelina Esparza, MPH, R.N., director of the ACS Patient Navigator Program, says both symptoms can be lessened by a change in the way you eat and with drugs called antiemetics. Because different antiemetics work for different people, sometimes patients need vim & vigor • wi nter 2008 19
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 Contents Friendly Faces For Your Health 'Tis the Season to be Safe Eat Your Veggies Joint Effort Fresh Beginnings Decades of Opportunity Keeping Score Your Big Give Roll Up Your Sleeve Tidings of Comfort and Health Blueprint for Safety The Smoke-Free Mom-to-Be Childbirth Trends Moms Choosing Midwives Community Sections Dollars & Sense Ask the Experts Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 (Page Cover1) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 (Page Cover2) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Contents (Page 1) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Friendly Faces (Page 2) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - For Your Health (Page 3) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - For Your Health (Page 4) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - For Your Health (Page 5) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - For Your Health (Page 6) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - 'Tis the Season to be Safe (Page 7) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - 'Tis the Season to be Safe (Page 8) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - 'Tis the Season to be Safe (Page 9) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Eat Your Veggies (Page 10) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Eat Your Veggies (Page 11) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Joint Effort (Page 12) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Joint Effort (Page 13) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Joint Effort (Page 14) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Joint Effort (Page 15) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Joint Effort (Page 16) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Joint Effort (Page 17) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Fresh Beginnings (Page 18) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Fresh Beginnings (Page 19) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Fresh Beginnings (Page 20) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Fresh Beginnings (Page 21) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Decades of Opportunity (Page 22) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Decades of Opportunity (Page 23) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Decades of Opportunity (Page 24) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Decades of Opportunity (Page 25) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Decades of Opportunity (Page 26) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Decades of Opportunity (Page 27) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Keeping Score (Page 28) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Keeping Score (Page 29) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Your Big Give (Page 30) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Your Big Give (Page 31) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Your Big Give (Page 32) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Your Big Give (Page 33) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Your Big Give (Page 34) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Your Big Give (Page 35) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Roll Up Your Sleeve (Page 36) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Roll Up Your Sleeve (Page 37) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Roll Up Your Sleeve (Page 38) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Roll Up Your Sleeve (Page 39) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Tidings of Comfort and Health (Page 40) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Tidings of Comfort and Health (Page 41) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Tidings of Comfort and Health (Page 42) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Tidings of Comfort and Health (Page 43) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Tidings of Comfort and Health (Page 44) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Tidings of Comfort and Health (Page 45) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Blueprint for Safety (Page 46) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Blueprint for Safety (Page 47) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Blueprint for Safety (Page 48) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - The Smoke-Free Mom-to-Be (Page 49) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Childbirth Trends (Page 50) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Childbirth Trends (Page 51) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Moms Choosing Midwives (Page 52) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Moms Choosing Midwives (Page 53) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Community Sections (Page 54) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Dollars & Sense (Page 55) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Ask the Experts (Page 56) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Ask the Experts (Page Cover3) Vim & Vigor - Winter 2008 - Ask the Experts (Page Cover4)
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