What Does It Mean to Be a Caregiver?
By Marc Silver on July 18th, 2010 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyThe other day, I came across a poll that said many cancer caregivers don’t think of themselves as caregivers. I sure didn’t when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The word caregiver sounds clinical and detached. It makes me think of a white-clad attendant, offering tea and pills to a bedbound patient. That surely wasn’t me. And my wife was far from helpless. In …
