{"product_id":"when-life-becomes-precious-elise-needell-babcock-9780553378696","title":"When Life Becomes Precious: The Essential Guide for Patients, Loved Ones, and Friends of Those Facing Serious Illnesses","description":"When you hear that someone you love has cancer...\u003cbr\u003eYou want to be as supportive as possible. But how? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElise NeeDell Babcock has devoted her life to answering this question and now puts her twenty-three years of experience as a counselor into this immensely useful guide. \u003cb\u003eWhen Life Becomes Precious\u003c\/b\u003e contains hundreds of tips for helping patients, primary caregivers, co-workers, and family members, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What to say (and not to say) to someone when you first find out they have cancer\u003cbr\u003e- How to be supportive without being intrusive\u003cbr\u003e- How to build a winning health-care team\u003cbr\u003e- How to handle holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries\u003cbr\u003e- How to explain the disease to children\u003cbr\u003e- Which gifts and gestures can do the most good \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom techniques for handling anger and anxiety, to uplifting success stories, to a comprehensive resource section, here is the information and inspiration you need to help those you love and to make each day--each moment--more precious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Life Becomes Precious\u003c\/i\u003e will be the first book to: \u003cbr\u003e- Offer tips on ways to help patients, caregivers and co-workers\u003cbr\u003e- Provide a long and diverse list of gifts that are appropriate to give to families that are living with cancer\u003cbr\u003e- Offers reasons why fear makes people shy away from discussing cancer and techniques on how to overcome that fear\u003cbr\u003e- Present the things that families do that doctors like and dislike \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Life Becomes Precious\u003c\/i\u003e will teach readers to assess and put into perspective, their own feelings about the disease so that they can truly help those who are afflicted with it. The use of cartoons, anecdotes and personal stories will set an upbeat and positive tone. Readers will come away fully prepared to deal with the realities of cancer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elise Needell Babcock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0553378694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780553378696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 6.02w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1997 pg. 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/1996","brand":"Elise Needell Babcock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946775347455,"sku":"9780553378696","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9841b40a-d8b4-4c4e-ab36-e8d0b5e13ea8.jpg?v=1681515073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-life-becomes-precious-elise-needell-babcock-9780553378696","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}