Sugar pills

By Barbara Baxter

Subjects: Patients, Cancer, Psychological aspects, Oncology, Cancer patients' writings

Description: "When good people get bad news they can either get scared and crawl under a rock or step up and become proactive; which is exactly what Barbara Baxter did when she learned she had cancer. As she negotiated the emotions that were sparked by the rather one dimensional way typical western medicine was helping her, Barbara started collecting her own ways of coping she started calling her Sugar Pills. She reached out to the people around her and began collecting their advice, sage words and inspired ways of dealing with difficulties.