Start Journaling Your Cancer Journey

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Start Journaling Your Cancer Journey  In addition to helping some of the symptoms of cancer, journaling can be a place to express your feelings, vent your fears, chronicle your journey, and for some people, is a way of leaving a legacy.  Check out our first article today for helpful tips on getting started - even if you've never been a writer before. Best wishes until next week, Dr. Lynne Lynne Eldridge MD Lung Cancer Expert Start Journaling Your Cancer Journey Many lifelong non-writers have found comfort in writing about their cancer journey.  What are some of the reasons to write?  Does journaling have any benefits for people with cancer?  And - what are some thoughts and questions to start you writing today. READ NOW Share Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Cancer Patients We tend to think of post-traumatic stress as occurring in people who have fought wars and been victims in natural disasters, but a significant percent of people with cancer suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, or at least post-traumatic stress symptoms.  What are these symptoms?  What has helped lessen these symptoms for others with cancer? READ NOW Share Can I Have a Lung Transplant for Lung Cancer? Can a lung transplant ever be used as a treatment for lung cancer?  If so, when would this be considered and how often are they done? READ NOW Share Pet Therapy for Cancer Patients  How can "animal-assisted therapy" help people living with cancer. How can you learn more about pet therapy, whether you feel this may help you in your cancer journey, or wish to get started as a volunteer?  READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • 7 Fitness Tracker Hacks to Addict You to Using It • Learn Why There is No Real Autism Epidemic • Slimming Down With Yerba Mate • 4 Feel-Good Tools for Your Post-Ride Recovery • Does Rheumatoid Arthritis Shorten Your Lifespan? • The Best Exercises to Improve Your Balance • Angry at Your Body due to Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? • What Are the Symptoms of Breast Cancer in Men? Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Lung Cancer newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved