Headphones in Kit
Listening to music may boost the mood of a cancer patient, relieve stress and reduce anxiety for awhile. Load your favourite tunes, relaxation tracks, audiobook or podcasts onto your phone or music player, pop in earphones, close your eyes and forget the world for a while. Sometimes at home, in hospital or radiology you just want …
That metallic taste
As a result of your illness and treatment you may experience your taste changing. Radiation treatment may result in dry mouth and as your taste buds can change and things can taste metallic and yucky with chemotherapy. This change in taste may result in you disliking certain foods that you would normal eat and can cause a …
Mouth problems
Winning and losing treatments are in the mouth. If you can eat and drink, you can fuel your body and stay in good condition. Your mouth might get sore during radiotherapy treatment to your head or neck 0r it might happen during a course of cancer drugs. Prevention is better than trying to treat mouth problems before they …
Keep exercising
Don’t let the cold weather slow you down! Lack of light is no excuse now, the shortest day has passed and the daylight is getting longer again. If you still cannot bear to head outdoors, increase your fitness at home – there are some fabulous videos now including walking. For cancer patients some days are …
Keep away from germs
Fighting infection and germs is an important factor when undergoing treatment. Keep away from people who are sick with illnesses you can catch and avoid crowds. If you are going shopping or to the movies pick a time when it is not busy. Hand cleanliness is extremely important for both yourself and others around you. Wash your hands …
Having a bad cancer day
You’re having a bad day and blame yourself for upsetting the people you love, worry you’re a burden or envious of your friend’s good health. Some days can bring feelings you’re not used to dealing with. Cancer patients say sometimes they just need to give in to their feelings, maybe shed a few tears and crawl into bed …
About journaling
Journaling generally involves exploring thoughts and feelings and events of your life. It’s also a place to record your toilet stops, keeping tabs on your temperature, any questions for your medical team and track of medications, dosages and side effects. Our stylus pen is perfect as one can use it for both the journal and …
Corporate
We are packing 50 Kits for a corporate order with a blue and white theme. We love to send care packages on behalf of our corporate friends and thank them for their support and for making someone’s journey a little bit nicer. We can work with your company to forward kits to staff members or staff …