Posted by Caitlin
on 2/29/2008, 1:55 pm
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I'm not sure if anyone can help with this, but as a research project from my english class I'm doing childhood cancer. And I have to do an interview. If anyone could please answer any or possibly all of the questions it would be a great help
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1. When did you find out that you had cancer?
2. What lead to the discovery that you had cancer?
3. What feelings did you have when the doctors told you?
4. What are the main ways that cancer has affected your life? How has
cancer changed your life?
5. What do you feel is the worst thing about having cancer?
6. How much has your happiness decreased since you started treatment?
Do you think there is anything that could change that?
7. How has having cancer affected your relationship with your friends?
8. How do people treat you differently after finding out that you have
cancer?
9. How often do you receive treatment? What does a dayâ??s treatment
involve? How does the treatment affect you?
10. How has school been going since you received your diagnosis? Do you
still attend, are you homebound, homeschooled, or have you stopped your
studies completely for now?
11. What are the main physical limitations you have? (Are you still
able to go outside, visit with people, play sports, etc?) Are there
things you could do before that youâ??re no longer able to do?
12. What is the worst kind of â??painâ?? that you experience? Emotional or
physical? Why?
13. Do the physical changes (such as hair loss) have a major impact on
your life? If so, how have they affected it?
14. Do you have any issues with food or drinks? What about with the
medicine in regard to that?
15. Does being labeled a cancer â??patientâ?? or â??victimâ?? have any impact
on your feelings about battling it?
16. What kind of emotions do you have regarding your cancer? Are you
scared, angry, nervous?
17. How do you think your cancer affects your family? What emotions do
you think that they have regarding you, your treatment, and your
experience?
18. Does being around other people and kids experiencing the same thing
help make things easier?
19. Are you lonely in the hospital? What would you suggest as a way to
change that or make it better?
20. Do groups/organizations such as Locks-of-Love or Make-a-Wish have
any impact on you or other patients? If so, how?
21. How do visitors affect your happiness or overall experience with
having cancer? Are there people you would rather have visit than
others? Who mainly visits you (family, friends, volunteers,
sororities/fraternities, etc)?
22. What things could be done to make things better for you while
receiving treatment and being a cancer patient?
23. If there was one thing that would top your list of ways to improve
having cancer, what would if be and why?
You can also email me back at rosestorm07@sbcglobal.net
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