By Tricycle — 1997
An interview with Rick Fields on living with cancer.
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CLEAR ALL
To celebrate the release of my new book, How To Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide, I’ve made a list of 20 tips to help with the health challenges all us face at one time or another in life.
We each have the power within ourselves to make this diagnosis seem like a gift. Use it to weed out the toxic relationships and reinforce the positive support squad you deserve.
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I’ve been disabled and intensely ill with the degenerative neuro-immuno illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (formerly known by the misnomer “chronic fatigue syndrome”) for 30 years.
Accepting help from others when you have a cancer diagnosis isn’t a sign of weakness.
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Research has shown that people with cancer need support from friends. You can make a big difference in the life of someone with cancer.