Brain Tumor Help
How do you help someone with a Brain Tumor.
How do you help the family of someone with a Brain Tumor?
There are many ways that you can help someone with a Brain Tumor, or the family of someone with a Brain Tumor. I look at the people that have been the most help to our family and it is often someone unexpected.
Our family was often asked "what can we do to help" Most of the time we had no idea, we were to busy with the day to day.
So if someone asks. Refer them here we will put up heaps of little things people can do that will help.
Things that are not maybe a little unusual, but made a big difference to our family, especially my mum.
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Brain Tumor Help
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In summary if you want to help someone with a Brain Tumor, or the family of someone with a Brain Tumor here is a quick list of the things that our family appreciated.
If they are at home, or the patient is at hospital in their local town.
- mow their lawn
-collect their mail
- walk their dog, feed their pets.
- bake a cake or some slice and drop off
- cook some meals that can be frozen and portion them into single serves
-offer to clean the house, or do their washing.
-offer to go and sit with the patient in the hospital
-money can be a very touchy subject, so treat offering money with CAUTION
If they are living away from home for treatment.
-offer to give them a lift to and from the hospital
-offer to take them a meal
-offer to take them out for a meal, but do not insist. They my be very tired and just want a quiet time at home
-offer to take them to church if they are church going people
-take them some fruit
-give them a hand getting orientated, using the bus, train, taxi. Know where the local supermarket is.
it is amazing how hard these things can be to find in a new city, when you are distracted.
-on weekends organize some type of low key activity. Like a tip to the beach for a coffee.
-offer to pick people up from the airport, or drop them to the airport.
-organize travel for them.
-organize accommodation for them, or offer to let them stay at your place.
-help find out about local charities and support programs for people living away from home for cancer patients. then present them with the list and what each charity can do. offer to organize anything they may need.
It is the little things that are often very tough to get around to. Things that you may take for granted and not even think about.
To give you an example.
Your spouse is in a car accident and flown to a major city 1000miles away.
You grab the next flight there and check into a motel, then race to the hospital to be with them.
Now what have you got to do to live in that strange city for a month. (the length of treatment for cancer can be 6 weeks +)
Food,
Accommodation (that you can afford for long term, which is a HUGE issue)
Transport.
they are the main ones, and if you do not know where to look they can be very hard to find.
Someone to show you the local supermarket, and stock a fridge is a blessing.
Someone to show you the closest bus stop and train station.
Someone to help you find mid term accommodation.
Short-mid term accommodation is VERY hard to find around hospitals. Most investors want a long term lease, so apartments are rented to nurses, and hospital staff. Most motels are expensive and do not really cater for long term stays. the best accommodation that our family found was a short term serviced apartment. It had two bedrooms as a lot of family came through, was serviced once a week. So there was no washing of sheets or cleaning. But it was expensive to be close to the hospital.
If you can offer accommodation to someone that is a real benefit, especially if you are close to the hospitals or major transport to the hospital.