Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast - Episode 4 - The Music of our Journey

Episode 4 - The Music of our Journey

06/29/23 • 38 min

Music can be a very powerful tool to help us through a tough time. It can lift us up, inspire us, help us to express frustration or help to soothe a broken heart. There are some songs that we listened to over the course of our journey that will forever be associated with that time. In this episode, I tell you all about those songs. While I cannot include the actual songs in the podcast, I have created a playlist on Spotify so that you can hear them in full, if you wish. In future episodes, when I speak with other families, I will ask about the songs that helped them through their journeys, and will add their songs to this playlist.

I also explain the process of creating the NCC logo, including the design elements and the colours, and what they all signify.

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Episode 3 - The Darkness and the Light

As you would expect, there is a lot of darkness that follows a child’s cancer diagnosis. In this episode, we acknowledge the feelings of darkness that one may encounter while on this journey... Not to bring anyone down; Simply to call attention to the reality of this experience, and to help others to see that they are not alone in their sadness or their fear.

Surprisingly, there are also moments of light. There is a realization that, without this experience, there are things that we would not have learned, or people we would not have met. So, the light deserves some attention, too, because it is helpful to remember that even in despair, life can be beautiful.

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Episode 5 - The Reality of Life in Treatment

In this episode, we discuss how we handled some of the hard parts of treatment - how to feed a child in treatment, and how to handle all of those medications. Every family will have a different experience, but we expect that these are two things that most families will struggle with at some point. As always, the care team at the hospital was ready with suggestions and support, but sometimes it also requires a little creativity (and a lot of patience) to find the best way forward.