“Everything is a learning process and regular life doesn’t
stop. We have to learn resilience with everything else. Whatever else comes
along the way, we never stop learning. We never stop learning because when we
stop learning, that’s the end.” – Amy Morrison Regenstreif
On this episode of The Little White Lie https://www.facebook.com/TheLittleWhiteLieDigitalNetwork/videos/480249072495093/
Caren and Amy talk about “How do you redirect your life in
the face of serious illness? They cover the following topics:
You Have the Power: You are the president of your own care
and now you must elect a cabinet. I’m
the president. My cabinet is not telling me what to do. They’re saying, this is
what I think you might want to do. (See
more thoughts about that from Caren’s interview with Marcus Hanson)
Feel It, Then Create It: First, you have to get over the
shock. You have to go through whatever emotional process you need to do to get
a grip on things. I gave myself the time to go crazy, but then I got down to
business. I started to use a process to
figure out, based on how I felt. (See more thoughts about that from Caren’s
interview with Lynda West)
You have to laugh. You don’t have to be funny, but you have
to learn how to laugh. Have humor and develop a very thick skin because people
say stupid things to you all the time.
Amy Regenstreif is a patient advocate. She helps to guide
cancer patients in a realistic way, how-to, in organizing their lives with them
at the center of it all.