I struggled with self-care after my husband's cancer diagnosis. Reaching out to family and other caregivers for support helped.

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People often remark on how healthy my husband is. At 82, Barry scampers up and down hills like a mountain goat and out-paddles many members of his kayak group. So it came as a shock in September when we discovered he had stage 2 lymphoma. Cancer? Unbelievable.