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When Chemo is the New Black
by calicante
What to do when you have a hypothetically incurable cancer and chemo is the new black? This podcast is all about ways of dealing with recurrent cancer, managing treatment side effects, improving quality of life, and finding meaning, hope, and hopefully, healing. The presenter is a psychologist living with recurrent ovarian cancer.
Episodes
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Episode 27: Honesty in Treatment
I discuss ways in which more honesty about treatment can increase hope, decrease the risk of medically induced PTSD, and increase patient trust in treating doctors. I also look at some of the ways to increase honesty in treatment if this is currently lacking.
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Episode 26: Dealing with Major Abdominal Surgery
Planning to get a tummy scar that looks like you wrestle with sharks? This episode looks at how to deal with the Mother of All Surgeries, from a practical and emotional standpoint. And for bragging rights afterwards ;)
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Episode 25: Bad News Survival Plan
If you are dealing with cancer, the chances are that you already know how to survive bad news. This episode talks through the phases of possible reactions that can come from getting bad news, and some of the ways to make this process easier, faster, and hopefully have less of a difficult longer...
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Episode 24: Safety in Changing Relationships
Cancer will shake up your relationships, some will get stronger, others may be weaker or disappear, it's a good idea to take none of the shenanigans that can occur personally. This episode looks at some of the ways your relationships can change, warning signs for exploitative or unhelpful...
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Episode 23: About food and weight
How to eat for your current gut functioning, and still enjoy yourself. Also what to do when something goes wrong digestively speaking...(as well as contacting a dr and cancer-specialised nutritionist asap).
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Episode 22: I'll wear what I want! (and this includes hair...)
This episode is at the request of a lovely friend, who said, basically, if we feel like shit why shouldn't we be allowed to look like shit? Why is there so much pressure from everyone to keep looking 'normal'? If ever there was a time to relax the beauty standards for women, I would have thought...
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Episode 21: Scanxiety
As a way of convincingly distracting myself from my own scanxiety, this episode talks through some ideas about what to do about the anxiety that can happen leading into a follow-up scan after finishing front line treatment.
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Episode 20: What to look for in a good doctor
This episode talks through what the major researchers, patients, and myself think are signs of a good doctor. I also talk through some practical advice (with my psychologist's hat on) on how to try and make appointments more effective for communication if, like me, you have difficulty thinking...
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Episode 18 : Insomnia
Insomnia can be a massive challenge for anyone, but is a particularly difficult and common aspect of dealing with cancer and going through treatment. There are many things that can cause this, for example, strong emotions, worry, and the cancer itself can cause difficulties sleeping due to pain,...
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Episode 19: Using your mind for healing
This episode looks at ways to use your mind to protect your emotional energy and facilitate your physical and emotional well being. It contains some ideas for different types of meditations, ways of connecting with yourself and others and mental exercises to improve your health as much as you…
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Episode 17: A sense of self that’s not just physical
How not to despair is one of the major challenges for anyone dealing with a body that is temporary and will one day die. If you think about it, we are all in this boat. This episode talks about how to dis-identify from your physical body and work on identifying with a sense of self and existence…
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Version Française Episode 4 : A propos du chagrin
Nous ressentons tous du chagrin à différents degrés, il est impossible d’être humain sans faire l’expérience de la perte (perdre mes clés, mes cheveux, et peut-être ma raison), et le deuil est un processus naturel et inévitable. La manière dont nous vivons notre deuil lorsqu'il s'agit de cancer…
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Version Française Episode 3 : Ne Paniquez Pas (à moins que paniquer soit utile)
Ne paniquez pas (sauf si paniquer est utile) Le soleil explosera dans environ 3,5 milliards d'années, mais tout ce qui se passe d'ici là reste probablement entre nos mains. Cet épisode examine notre réaction face à des périodes de stress extrême et comment gérer ces réactions de manière créative…
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Version Française Episode 2: Qu’est que c’est la force?
Cet épisode explore les nombreuses formes que la force peut prendre. Il examine également comment développer davantage de force afin de trouver des moyens de traverser des situations difficiles ou (apparemment) impossibles La force sous toutes ses formes Force physique Force émotionnelle Force...
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Version Française Episode 1: L’espoir comme un choix radical
Cet épisode explore comment trouver de l’espoir face à une maladie dont les chances de survie à long terme sont aussi rares que celles de survivre à une attaque menée par une meute de crocodiles sauvages. Si tant est que les crocodiles chassaient en meute… et remercions le ciel qu’ils ne le…
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Episode 16 : How to deal with fear of recurrence
This episode looks at how to deal with the fear that happens to nearly all cancer survivors, the fear of recurrence. We talk through some ideas about how to tackle this fear so that it can be a motivator for useful personal growth, and not something that detracts from your quality of life.
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Episode 15: Avoiding bugtastrophy or viral armageddon
What is being immunocompromised? This episode looks at how to manage this common, but fluctuating effect of chemo and other cancer treatments, without having to live the life of a recluse, unless that's actually your thing!
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Episode 14: An Imperfect Christmas
Christmas and other major holidays can be an intense emotional time, due to past and current situations, grief or anger over past or future losses, performance expectations, and the feeling that it has to be perfect. This podcast is an invitation to an imperfect Christmas, but making sure that is...
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Episode 13 : Fun things to do during chemo
For the lucky 13 th episode I decided to ask the question online about what were some fun things that people had done during chemo. I was blown away by the replies. Skydiving, cruises, travelling to other countries, learning new crafts, reconnecting with old friends, hiking around the Grand…
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Episode 12: About Grief
We are all grieving to some degree, it's impossible to be human and not experience loss (losing my keys, my hair, and maybe my mind), and grief is a natural and unavoidable process. So how we grieve when dealing with cancer is really important. There are different stages and tasks for working...
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Episode 11: Other Peoples' Expectations
When dealing with a serious illness managing other peoples' expectations shouldn't really be your problem, but, well, yadda yadda yadda. Catching cancer is a great time to take stock of your own limits (as this will happen regardless), take stock of your relationships, and to figure out where the...
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Episode 9: What is Strength?
This episode looks at the many forms that strength can take. It also looks at how to develop more strength so as to find ways through difficult or (apparently) impossible situations. In reality, there are so many things we can do to improve our sense of strength. Please note that this episode was...
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Episode 10: Silly Walking Through Medical Trauma: Strategies to Stay Resilient
This episode is brought to you by the ministry for silly walks, interpretative dance, and loads of dark chocolate. Cancer, serious illness, and treatments can be traumatic for the person experiencing it as well as for those around them. But there are many things you can do to try to lessen the...
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Episode 8: Is Chemo Working?
It is very normal to wonder if treatment is working, and sometimes it can be hard to tell. This episode looks at signs that chemotherapy is working, and how to tell in the unlikely situation that is might not be. We also talk briefly about how to harness the natural anxiety about treatment in…
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Episode 7: Travelling during treatment
This an episode for all those who like to wander, but find themselves temporarily stuck due to pesky cancer treatment. We discuss some ideas about why travelling might or might not be. good idea, how to get travel insurance, and some things to assess as part of feasibility planning. Please…
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Episode 6: Telling people
It can be very overwhelming telling anyone about a cancer diagnosis, particularly those who are closest to you. This episode looks at some ways to make this process easier, as well as the argument for letting people know so that they can help you (or get out of your way).
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Episode 5: My Bionic Portacath
Becoming bionic aka getting an implantable chamber or catheter. I think Nietzsche had it right. You’ve got to learn to love your fate, otherwise it will just make you bitter and quite possibly very boring. Getting a port is anything but boring, I share the story of getting the port implanted, and…
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Episode 4: Chemo, Preparing to Kick Cancer's *ss
Preparing to kick cancer's means usually preparing for chemo - unless you have supernatural self-healing powers, in which case please contact me as I probably have a job for you... This episode looks at what to do before chemo, on the day of chemo, and the best environment for recovering from...
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Episode 3: Improving your health
Episode 3: Improving Your Health I’m so glad you are all still alive! This is brilliant! Now lets talk about what you can do to try and stay this way. There’s a lot you can do: we will have a look at the research and books by Dr O Simonton (psychologist), the research into the factors for radical...
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Episode 2: Don’t panic! Unless panicking is useful...
Episode 2: Don’t Panic (Unless Panicking is Useful) The sun is going to explode in about 3.5 billion years, but anything that happens between now and then is still probably up for grabs. This episode looks at our reaction to times of extreme stress, and how to manage these reactions creatively…
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Episode 1: Hope
This episode looks at finding hope when dealing with illness that has the same long term survival odds as being savaged by a pack of wild crocodiles. If crocodiles actually hunted in packs, and thank God that they don't. So based on that metaphor we will probably all survive, particularly with…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What to do when you have a hypothetically incurable cancer and chemo is the new black? This podcast is all about ways of dealing with recurrent cancer, managing treatment side effects, improving quality of life, and finding meaning, hope, and hopefully, healing. The presenter is a psychologist living with recurrent ovarian cancer.
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