Patient & Caregiver: When Cancer Worlds Collide with Megan-Claire Chase

The Burn

This week we are sharing a favorite episode from the archives as we take a little fall break from our regular podcast schedule to enjoy some Halloween fun. Production assistant Monica Haro selected this episode from January 2022 to reshare. Enjoy!

Megan-Claire Chase was diagnosed with lobular breast cancer at 39 after watching her mother go through her own cancer. Her mom was still very much in need of caregiving when Megan was diagnosed and this led to some hard truths about being a daughter and a caregiver to a parent. What do you do when you need love and nurturing while at the same time being that for a parent? In this episode, Megan reads her piece "When Cancer Worlds Collide'" from Wildfire Magazine's 2018 "Caregivers" issue.

More about Megan-Claire: https://www.instagram.com/warriormegsie/

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Listen to more episodes centered on caregivers:

Well, Let’s Start a Podcast by Danielle Hernandez

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/958ded9e-a99d-4531-be9c-e9d459dc49a2/

I Call Her Mother by Diana Mae Vega

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/aa086054-221d-4dce-96c5-bb28f4451138/

Let the Mirror Shatter by Wang Shein

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/7fb3d4a9-b5d7-4a17-9d7e-419fab782f86/

Buy the Wildfire book Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor, Inside Today’s Young Breast Cancer Community: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJVJ629F?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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