Community Connection: Ovarian Cancer Canada is looking for volunteers! Could you help?
OVdialogue – consider joining our team in the role of Community Champion. Over a few hours each week, you would be part of a team that helps connect people, support conversations and are thought leaders for OVdialogue. This is your opportunity to give back to those who have/continue to support you through the tough times, share your unique experiences, and help celebrate successes. For more details of what this entails, please reach out to @Mfallis (mfallis@ovariancanada.org).
OVdialogue – consider joining our team in the role of Community Champion. Over a few hours each week, you would be part of a team that helps connect people, support conversations and are thought leaders for OVdialogue. This is your opportunity to give back to those who have/continue to support you through the tough times, share your unique experiences, and help celebrate successes. For more details of what this entails, please reach out to @Mfallis (mfallis@ovariancanada.org).
The new OVdialogue experience is only days away! Here’s what the updated platform will offer you as a valued member of our peer-to-peer community:
• A personalized experience, just for you: your member homepage displays the content you engage with most, including a resource library where you can engage in discussions directly related to the content.
• Have conversations in real time: You can respond to notifications and personal messages from people in your community directly from your email inbox; plus it’s easier than ever to return to the platform.
• Stay up to date on the latest events: upcoming activities will be listed in an events calendar right here in the platform
During this time of transition, private messaging within the platform will be unavailable beginning January 22, and posting will be unavailable beginning January 27.
We look forward to seeing you in the refreshed platform!
• A personalized experience, just for you: your member homepage displays the content you engage with most, including a resource library where you can engage in discussions directly related to the content.
• Have conversations in real time: You can respond to notifications and personal messages from people in your community directly from your email inbox; plus it’s easier than ever to return to the platform.
• Stay up to date on the latest events: upcoming activities will be listed in an events calendar right here in the platform
During this time of transition, private messaging within the platform will be unavailable beginning January 22, and posting will be unavailable beginning January 27.
We look forward to seeing you in the refreshed platform!
Books--Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
Strongwoman
Moderator
in Resources
Borrowed from Hospice and here are some quotes that resonated with me:
"Coping with a terminal illness is more than hard work--it's all consuming and creeps into every corner of your life."
"It's like having an unwanted and uninvited stranger in your midst, who seems to take up more and more space."
"The weight of another's denial adds to the patient's burden, often causing a dying person to withdraw from those who are denying, increasing his sense of isolation."
"A dying person's depression grows out of grief. Dying people grieve as anyone does for something that is lost. But their grief has two parts; they're mourning what's lost already to illness--health, family, role, job, independence--but also for what will be lost when they die--personal relationships, life itself and the future."
And a quote at the end of the book:
"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
--Rossiter Worthington Raymond
1840-1918"
"Coping with a terminal illness is more than hard work--it's all consuming and creeps into every corner of your life."
"It's like having an unwanted and uninvited stranger in your midst, who seems to take up more and more space."
"The weight of another's denial adds to the patient's burden, often causing a dying person to withdraw from those who are denying, increasing his sense of isolation."
"A dying person's depression grows out of grief. Dying people grieve as anyone does for something that is lost. But their grief has two parts; they're mourning what's lost already to illness--health, family, role, job, independence--but also for what will be lost when they die--personal relationships, life itself and the future."
And a quote at the end of the book:
"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
--Rossiter Worthington Raymond
1840-1918"
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