Everyone Dies

Being diagnosed with cancer is very scary. Having it return is a fear on a totally different level. On the other hand, many people cope with a recurrence differently than the first time around. There is some familiarity with the health care system, and you have a relationship with an oncologist and their team when you have cancer recur.
Some of the changes documented in people who have had a cancer diagnosis are a greater appreciation of life, greater confidence in themselves, more caring and compassion for others, and more focus on life’s priorities. This week we are talking with Denice who was first diagnosed
with breast cancer in 2007, buried her mother who died from metastatic breast cancer in 2015, and then had a local recurrence of her breast cancer in 2020.
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I hope all is going well during this Pandemic we are all in. Jeanne White, Passionate World Talk Radio

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Many people think of hospice as a place people go to die. Some think that if you get hospice services a hospice nurse moves in with the dying person and does all their care until they die. Neither of these is true. There are hospice houses (not all communities have one) where people can go for the last few days of their lives under specific circumstances. But electing the hospice benefit in the United States requires that there be a caregiver willing to provide the twenty-four care.

This week we are talking with Noelle whose 71-year-old mother started to receive hospice care on July 2 (her mother died 9/27) and Noelle learned firsthand what was required to provide care for her mom. There is a lot involved in caring for someone at the end of life, medications to be given, physical care to be offered. Noelle’s initial thought about this was that ‘they really don’t expect us to do this, do they?’ Well, yes Noelle, they do. Tune in to this enlightening interview with Noelle. and from all of us at Everyone Dies we offer Noelle and her family condolences on the death of their mother.
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I hope all is going well for you all. Please be safe Jeanne White, Station Manager, Passionate World Talk Radio

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By now we have all heard the necessary information for living during a pandemic: wear a mask; social distance; wash your hand; stay away from crowds. It is old news and we are wary of the whole thing. This week, you can listen to Nicole, a 38-year-old mother of 2 talks about her experience with having Covid-19. She was not hospitalized but managed her symptoms from her home. Hers is a great example of all that can happen when tested positive for Covid-19 and the long illness that follows.
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I hope all is well with all of you. Jeanne White, Passionate World Talk Radio

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Dr. Marianne Matzo previously had the pleasure of interviewing Stevan Lemke who talked with us about being diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. In this second interview, he takes us through the process of being evaluated for a lung transplant, the wait, the surgery, and the postoperative experience. Before being approved for placement on the transplant list Steven underwent 9 days of testing. When the lungs were finally approved for his surgery, that surgery took 14 hours. Afterward, he and his family were required to stay three months at the transplant center hospital city (which was 300 miles from his home). When we think about the process of an organ transplant very few people really know what is involved. This radio show gives you a view into that world. Stay tuned for a future interview with Stevan where we will talk about what happens after you return home with your new organ.
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Our guest this week, Lucy Morganstern, is a Pet Doula. End-of Life Doulas specializing in animal companion care complement the work provided by palliative and hospice care for pets provided by veterinarians. Doulas support animals and their owners with compassionate care in several ways, including emotional and informational support.

Listen to our interview with Lucy to learn about what a pet doula does and how she works with the pet’s human to plan the memorial service. She also typically plays her violin at the service (she is a professional violinist for the American Ballet Theatre and the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City).
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This week, I had the pleasure to interview Deborah Wright, APRN, CNS who works in the Phase I Program and Clinical Trials Office at the Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma City. We talked about clinical trials, what they are and how they may benefit people who participate in them. The road to having a drug to treat cancer or the development of a vaccine is complicated and long. Drug companies and clinicians want to be sure that anything given to a patient does not hurt them. The only way to do this is that once a drug has been tested in animals and determined to be ready for human trials is to start testing with a small number of people. Ms. Wright talks about this process and what people can expect if they choose to participate in a clinical trial.
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Imagine if you will, finding yourself increasingly short of breath. Sure, maybe you smoked in the past, maybe you never did. Maybe you could lose a few pounds, maybe not. But for whatever reason, you can’t seem to get a good breath. You cough, sometimes you can’t stop. Your doctor gives you steroids, cough syrup, nothing works. One day, you decide to see a specialist and are diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Whatever that is, it doesn’t sound good to you. Listen to this interview with Stevan, who was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and had a double lung transplant five years ago.
There is so much to learn from Stevan regarding his philosophy about living with chronic illness.
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When we are young, we feel as though we cannot survive without a best friend.  We can tell them our secrets and we hear theirs and feel like the sun rises and sets on them.  Few of us, though, have the experience of going throughout our entire lives with that friend.  This week we are talking to Chris who met her best friend Cathy in third grade.  They lived in the same town, married and had children at the same time, and raised those kids together.  When Cathy was 65, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and died with Chris holding her hand at age 70.  Chris talks with us about this loss and how she is trying to figure out her life without Cathy.
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Jeanne White, Station Manager, Passionate World Talk Radio

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You find yourself diagnosed with a disease like colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, or Crohn’s disease (to name a few) and find out that part of the treatment is a colostomy. A colostomy is a surgical operation where a piece of the colon is brought out an opening in the abdominal wall to bypass a damaged part of the colon. How do you now exercise, make love, go swimming? Some people refuse to leave their houses after this surgery. Meet Chris who did an iron man race after his colostomy.
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Imagine if you will, your father has Alzheimer’s Disease (for the last 4 years) and has been doing relatively well until being diagnosed with Covid-19. He then stops eating and drinking, is admitted to the hospital for dehydration, and returns to the Hospice care facility. He is still refusing to eat or drink and is now on his ninth day. You honestly don’t know how he is still alive after not eating or drinking for so long. This is starting to feel cruel. As a family member, what are you supposed to do? Of course, you Google this question and find out that the body cannot survive without water for more than three or four days, yet here we are.
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I hope all is going well for you and your family. Jeanne White, Station Manager, Passionate World Talk Radio

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