How To Help During Cancer Treatment

Having a family member, friend or co-worker battle against cancer is
one of the hardest and worst realities in life. No one likes to help
someone deal with cancer, but at some point almost all of us will have
the opportunity to walk beside someone we care about through one of
the most difficult times of their life: cancer treatment.

I have had the privilege (and I do mean privilege) of helping out both
of my parents and one of my closest friends during their weeks and
months of cancer treatments. At first I was quite intimidated and
unsure of how to help in such serious and life-threatening situations.
I thought because I didn't know the perfect things to do that I
couldn't do anything at all. Was I wrong.

Some of the best ways to help out a friend or loved one as their
undergo cancer treatment is in the most practical ways. Don't look
past how helpful cleaning their bathrooms, doing their dishes, or
collecting their garbage can be. It is an amazing thing to get down
and dirty on behalf of someone else. Look around and simply see what
needs to be done. Mow their lawn, plant some fresh flowers, or get
their car cleaned on the inside and out.

Taking care of the family of the one getting cancer treatment is one
of the most helpful things you can do, especially when there are
children involved. Offer to take the children to school and pick them
up, or invite the kids over to your house for frequent sleepovers
during the cancer treatment. It will be good for the parents and good
for the kids to be separated during such a hard time. Involve the kids
in doing something special for their parent who is in cancer
treatment. Take the kids to a boutique that allows you to paint your
own pottery, for example. Help the kids make something memorable for
their loved one. You can do simple things for the family of someone
who is in cancer treatment like go grocery shopping, prepare meals or
take their family out to special meals.

Far too often people think that helping out during a time of crisis
such as cancer treatment that they have to do extraordinary things.
The truth is that it is the ordinary things

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