Bachelor Thesis Coping with breast cancer (short survey)

Interesting approach. Are you a Psychology major?

Completed! Would you be willing to post the results when you're done with your thesis? I'd be interested to see the outcome

Best of luck with your Masters!

Done. The health insurance cost and income was a bit difficult to answer. While I have complete coverage with Medicare and supplement plan F, the monthly premiums is expensive with my income to carry.

Just completed the survey - hope it is helpful and gets you at least one additional reply closer to 100! Good luck and thank you!

Just did this as well. You should know that I signed up for a LiveSTRONG event while in the midst of treatment. I raised money, and I had to train. The ride was 12 days after finishing radiation. Just the most miserable time, but because of the rain and wind. I downsized from 60-45 miles. But I finished! I did turn down the cold beer at the end because I was chilled to the bone.

I am wondering why they didn't come back Seattle?

More seriously, once I learned that I would most likely live, my focus was on getting through treatment as unscathed as possible. So lots of exercise, and I was able to eat mostly normally. My key client lost their major client and I was affected financially. They eventually went out of business.

My big learning is that we set the bar too low post treatment. Eight years later, I live a rich, full life. Just got hugged by Ulli of Ulli's Sausages. Not enough hours in the day to get it all done. I pay it forward with my work for a brain cancer charity.

BTW - since I do consulting in Market Research, I thought your survey dwelled on the negative and that I was expected to respond to an "agenda of victimhood and ill health". I never felt that way. I thought my body had been invaded and that I had to get beaten up to extirpate the intruder. Which I did. There was no way that I felt sorry for myself. My childhood friend was not so lucky with a rare kidney cancer. My cancer was treatable.

What was missing when I was treated was a model (or models, as I suspect segmentation, of "healthy recovery"). I still think that work needs to be done in that arena.

Good luck with your thesis. You might want to read the work of Dr. Howard Moskowitz (who I know personally from some of my work) around Mind Genomics. I couldn't find the exact reference I was looking for, but here is a synopsis of how they are applying this work. Because it really is about "groups of patients", not just one patient. The same as for spaghetti sauce. - Claire

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