What can cancer survivors do to cope and process the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic?
BY BARBARA TAKO
PUBLISHED MARCH 28, 2020
Barbara Tako is a breast cancer survivor (2010), melanoma survivor (2014) and author of Cancer Survivorship Coping Tools–We'll Get You Through This. She is a cancer coping advocate, speaker and published writer for television, radio and other venues across the country. She lives, survives, and thrives in Minnesota with her husband, children and dog. See more at www.cancersurvivorshipcopingtools.com,or www.clutterclearingchoices.com.
Coronavirus, COVID-19 or the worldwide pandemic all reference a topic that feels too large for me to process. COVID-19 is too all encompassing and impacts too much for me to process it with a platitude or two. COVID-19 impacts our health, our finances, our emotions and our collective and individual ways of doing daily life. So, Let's begin at the beginning.
Some of us ignore it. Some of us minimize it. Some of us feel swamped by it. Most of us are socially isolated by it. We can't go under it or around it. We must go through it, and we can and will eventually prevail. I believe we will come out the other side kinder, wiser and stronger.
Some of us ignore it. Some of us minimize it. Some of us feel swamped by it. Most of us are socially isolated by it. We can't go under it or around it. We must go through it, and we can and will eventually prevail. I believe we will come out the other side kinder, wiser and stronger.
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