My first TED talk was Yes I Survived Cancer by Debra Jarvis. This TED talk really spoke to me as I can relate to her experience, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2014. Debra shared most of the experiences that my mom went through. Her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and then 5 days later she (Debra) was diagnosed. Debra had a mastectomy, which my mom had.
Debra worked for a cancer treatment center where she got all of her treatments.Which she said made things a ton more convenient. That sure would have saved a lot of money!
She said a few things in her talk that really stuck out to me. The first thing was "Only a small part about the cancer is about the treatment, the other is about finding hope, strength, etc." My family found that it's important to stay strong because when you are having chemicals pumped into your body or radioactive waves pounding on your skin, that you need to be strong most of all. You can't be down during all of that.
Debra really emphasized the idea of "claim your experience, don't let it claim you". Towards the end of the talk, she says " Claim your trauma as an experience not as your identity" I truly believe that people try to name you by your experience, not by who your really are.
She said something in her talk that I thought was pretty funny myself, she said that when she heard people say NED (No Evidence Of Disease) she thought it meant Not Entirely Dead.
When she worked as a chaplain for the research center she said that the 3 C's of cancer were Comfort, Clarify and Confront. She used the three C's of cancer to help people going through the same thing that she had to go through. I think that my family found that one of the most improtant things you need is support from others.
In the first five minutes of the talk, She tells a story about a house guest that she and her husband had right after she had her surgery, which she now regrets this decision as he was trying to tell her how she should live her life. He said things like "That she is really going to learn what's important" and that she is "going to make some big changes in her life and that she will start to think about her death." he said that her cancer will be her " wake up call." After saying that, she felt like killing him with her bare hands. (Which I would probably do.)I thought this was really rude of him as that is not his life and he has no right to tell her how to live her life.
This TED Talk was really special to me and is important to me because one thing in life that I think needs to happen is finding the cure for cancer. Also, finding what makes people get cancer? I think it's important that people lead a healthier life, as I'm sure a healthier life= not as much disease.
Debra worked for a cancer treatment center where she got all of her treatments.Which she said made things a ton more convenient. That sure would have saved a lot of money!
She said a few things in her talk that really stuck out to me. The first thing was "Only a small part about the cancer is about the treatment, the other is about finding hope, strength, etc." My family found that it's important to stay strong because when you are having chemicals pumped into your body or radioactive waves pounding on your skin, that you need to be strong most of all. You can't be down during all of that.
Debra really emphasized the idea of "claim your experience, don't let it claim you". Towards the end of the talk, she says " Claim your trauma as an experience not as your identity" I truly believe that people try to name you by your experience, not by who your really are.
She said something in her talk that I thought was pretty funny myself, she said that when she heard people say NED (No Evidence Of Disease) she thought it meant Not Entirely Dead.
When she worked as a chaplain for the research center she said that the 3 C's of cancer were Comfort, Clarify and Confront. She used the three C's of cancer to help people going through the same thing that she had to go through. I think that my family found that one of the most improtant things you need is support from others.
In the first five minutes of the talk, She tells a story about a house guest that she and her husband had right after she had her surgery, which she now regrets this decision as he was trying to tell her how she should live her life. He said things like "That she is really going to learn what's important" and that she is "going to make some big changes in her life and that she will start to think about her death." he said that her cancer will be her " wake up call." After saying that, she felt like killing him with her bare hands. (Which I would probably do.)I thought this was really rude of him as that is not his life and he has no right to tell her how to live her life.
This TED Talk was really special to me and is important to me because one thing in life that I think needs to happen is finding the cure for cancer. Also, finding what makes people get cancer? I think it's important that people lead a healthier life, as I'm sure a healthier life= not as much disease.