Today is "March 8th Women's Day", a women's holiday. Each woman may have multiple identities, mother, wife, daughter, female classmate, girlfriend, strong woman, cute girl, female man... No matter what kind of identity and posture, it is the most beautiful color in the world. When a woman encounters an illness, how to "cure her" and support her forward? The medical staff of the Department of Breast Medicine of the Cancer Prevention and Control Center of Sun Yat-sen University launched the "Healing Her Narrative Space" before the March 8th Festival to cheer for female patients.
Heal Her: A Different Kind of Inspirational Story
Breast cancer survivors share anti-cancer experience
The patient arranges flowers to ease the mood
"On the high green mountain, the grass flower blooms, pick a flower to give to my little girl, pin it to the ends of your hair, hold it on my heart..." In the melody of a warm song "Xuancao Flower", in the breast department of the Cancer Prevention and Control Center of Sun Yat-sen University, "Heal Her Narrative Space", patients and families are arranging flowers, listening to doctors tell psychological relief lessons, and sharing anti-cancer stories.
"I'm really good now, I want to tell you my story, I hope you're better than me in the future." The special guest of this event, Chun Chun, came to the scene by car from Hunan. This year marks her sixth year of breast cancer recovery. As a "comer," she said emotionally.
"On November 7, 2016, I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, which has always considered myself in great health." Chun Chun said that at the moment of diagnosis, she sat in the corridor of the hospital and did not know where to go, did not know who to tell, only tears flowed. "Professor Tang Jun treats patients like relatives, and it is he who gives me great confidence!" The operation was scheduled for November 10, at the door of the operating room, Chun Chun made a cheering gesture to her daughter, and the operation went smoothly. "As long as you can live one less piece of meat, it's okay!" Chun Chun said this to her sisters.
During the chemotherapy period, Chunchun faced it with a strong heart, took the first high-speed train from Hengyang to Guangzhou every day, started chemotherapy at the Zhongzhu Day Chemotherapy Center, ate a fast meal at noon, and then rushed back to the high-speed rail of the day. "Soldiers will come to cover the water!" Because the heart accepted all this, the subsequent treatment was not so terrible. Even if you treat hair loss, remember to smile every day, nausea and temporarily do not eat, feel better and eat quickly. ”
After eating and insisting on exercise, the results of the first review in Spring Spring were very good! She loves singing and running, and has participated in the Marathon Association, the Volunteer Association, and the Poetry Reading Club.
Narrative Space: Tell your story
"Heal Her Narrative Space" is the latest project in narrative care for cancer patients. At present, humanistic care is an indispensable need of cancer patients, which has become an important part of tumor treatment, nursing and rehabilitation, and narrative medicine has increasingly become an important means of cancer treatment.
As a key cancer specialty hospital in South China, the establishment of a "mental health narrative sharing center" centered on narrative nursing is of great significance to the provision of humanistic nursing services with the characteristics of Zhongdema.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter Ren Shanshan Correspondents: Wen Chaoyang, Chen Xun, Zhao Xianting
Photo/Courtesy of the hospital
Li Jin, editor of Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng