Caring for Caregivers

Statistics say that over 20% of husbands leave their wives after they’re diagnosed with breast cancer. I was lucky. From the beginning, James told me, in no uncertain terms, that we were in this together; that he would always be there for me no matter what. A friend of mine was not as fortunate. The day after her diagnosis, her husband left her. Not only did he abandon her, he left their 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter to become their mother’s primary caregivers. What kind of man does that? What kind of message is he sending his children? Another breast cancer husband I know was so unsympathetic during his wife’s chemotherapy he actually told her to take an aspirin and

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