Survivors

Co-Survivors

Co-Survivors are people who support people with breast cancer. They are spouses, children, partners, friends, family, co-workers and health professionals who have supported survivors through diagnosis and treatment.  Co-Survivors play essential roles in the lives of survivors.           

20 Ways to Support a Person with Breast Cancer!
1.Just Call to Chat.
2.Send out e-mails to co-workers and friends with your friend’s address so others can send cards and letters too.
3.Take up a collection to buy a day of house cleaning, window washing, or carpet cleaning.
4.Cook a meal for her family on chemotherapy days.
5.Give her a hat shower. Have everyone bring a cool hat to help her deal with her hair loss.
6.Bring her a milkshake or other easily digestible snacks.
7.Just Call to Chat.
8.Take her to lunch and a matinee.
9.Drop by to do some laundry.
10.Run errands (grocery shopping, post office, dry cleaner).
11.Just Call to Chat.
12.Schedule a manicure and pedicure together.
13.Wash her car.
14.Help with her yard work (and chat while working).
15.Take her to hit a bucket of golf balls (depending on her level of strength).
16.Arrange for a day of babysitting so she can rest.
17.Just Call to Chat.
18.Go wig shopping and try on crazy colors (the crazier, the better).
19.Buy her a new shade of lipstick.
20.And finally—don’t take NO for an answer!!! Keep offering to help even if she says, “I’m fine.”

For more ideas, go to www.breastfriends.com

Breast Friends: Helping women survive the trauma of breast cancer, one friend at a time.

Printed with permission from Breast Friends, a Komen Grant recipient,  non-profit organization in Beaverton, Oregon at 503-598-8048.

For further information on the Komen Co-Survivor Campaign please go to www.komen.org