As of March 26, 2010 Think About Your Life is one month old!
I have been comparing the launch of Think About Your Life to
giving birth to another child!
The anticipation built over a year and a half and was finally
launched at The 10th Annual Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, February 26-28, 2010. What a great
opportunity to celebrate our new website and share it with hundreds
of young breast cancer survivors! Now I have another child to
nurture and cherish!!!
Eleanor Attrill from the UK, Amanda Petersen and I were
together!
This was the first time the three of
us had met face to face. Our work on the website was mostly over
email and skype calls. Here we are after the first 12 hour day of
exhibiting thinkaboutyourlife.org. We were excited to have over 60
people register for the website! Lots of connections were made with
others exhibiting. We took the opportunity to sit down with women
and provide and orientation to the website.
Eleanor and I attended a session led by Julia Rowland, Director
of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship in
the US. Her message was very clear on survivorship planning is a
standard of care for cancer treatment in the US! I spoke with her
after and introduced Thinkaboutyourlife. She suggested we look at
the resilience aspect of the tools on the website and find a
researc
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partner.
This is my mission at the moment - to find a partner for doing a
study on the tools and techniques on Think About Your Life provide
cancer survivors with skills to be resilient?
In next blog we will share examples of how people are using
tools and what we are learning about people's experiences with
using the tools on their journey with cancer.
