Why the proverb, "you should never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes" is true for both cancer patients and survivors.
PUBLISHED June 19, 2018
A native New Yorker, Shira Kallus Zwebner is a communications consultant and writer living with her husband and three children in Jerusalem, Israel. Diagnosed in 2017 with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, she's fighting her cancer battle and blogging about the journey at hipstermomblog.com
My first job out of college was as an assistant account executive in the sports and entertainment division of a public relations firm in Manhattan. Our clients were big names in sports: Turner sports, ProPlayer, The NFL Quarterback Club, The V Foundation for Cancer Research, among others. Our division was run by a quartet of handsome men nearly ten years my senior. I was 20 years old and fresh off the boat; sprung from my insular Orthodox Jewish community of Queens, I was young, naïve and excited by the high-pressure, yet glamorous atmosphere.
A month into the job, one of my supervisors was diagnosed with testicular cancer. We hadn’t worked together that much at that point, but I remember feeling fear and worry for him. I didn’t know what to do to help, so I planted a tree in his honor somewhere in the North of Israel and sent the certificate to his home.
A month into the job, one of my supervisors was diagnosed with testicular cancer. We hadn’t worked together that much at that point, but I remember feeling fear and worry for him. I didn’t know what to do to help, so I planted a tree in his honor somewhere in the North of Israel and sent the certificate to his home.
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