How I provided support for my husband during his cancer treatment

So the way I was sort of able to provide support for Andy was I did a lot of research, I spoke to a lot of people, I asked a lot of questions, and I wrote down every question that I had. I’m sort of naturally a person who asks questions but I felt like in this particular situation I could so much research online because I found it very overwhelming to…there were a lot of Web sites that gave information that didn’t necessarily pertain to me or it was too difficult to digest or it was too medical so I talked to the doctor a lot. I talked to the doctor a lot and I talked to friends of ours that were doctors.

For the fertility side I really just started going to different Web sites and looking at the fertility side of things, you know, what were going to be options for us. You know, and for Andy, it was really about emotional support. He just needed me there, he needed me smiling at him, he needed me to make sure he had taken his meds, I mean, because he forgot. He was just in a zone, you know, and he needed to be in that zone to get through it. So I think I just provided that energy and love that he needed in addition to being resourceful and doing the research that he needed for the both of us.