For Me With Me: Blog Roundup

​On May 9, ELLICSR hosted For Me With Me: A Forum for People Affected by Cancer. We invited people who’ve been touched by cancer to come share their experience, learn from others what helped them, and work with us to begin to revolutionize the cancer experience. The event gave our bloggers lots to write about, starting with

• Zen and The Art of Baking up a Conference by Robert Hawke
• For Me With Me recounted in pictures by Colleen Young

Late in the morning, we broke into smaller groups to share experiences and build a toolkit to help others. You told stories, had laughs and got your fingers sticky with glue while sharing your expertise about living with cancer to help others. ELLICSR bloggers sat in on each session. Here’s what they experienced.

• Transformation: Patients talk about the (not so) little things that help by Geremy Capone 
• Building your support network: “What do I need to get through this?” by Nour Alkazaz 
• Giving back: helping others & healing yourself by Charmaine Silva 
• Partnering is a One-Lane Bridge by Lauren Shorser 
• It’s Broken: In Rebuilding We Find Strength by Bob Hunt 
• Getting Informed by Christy Brissette 
• The Journey to Advocacy: Leading from Diagnosis by Myann Marks-Aitken
• Wellness: A Theory You Didn’t Know You Knew by Alaina Cyr

Other ELLICSR staff members (researchers, educators, clinicians, and others) observed and recorded the sessions and drafted the pages of a Toolkit by Patients based on what you shared.