A lot of people feel at a complete loss after losing a loved one to cancer — it’s hard to think about moving forward, and everybody grieves in their own way. Doug Wendt and his wife Alice were together for 25 years — they raised two kids together, were married for more than two decades, and even ran a business together. So when Alice was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, they naturally took on that challenge as a team. Alice tragically lost her battle to the disease, but Doug tells SurvivorNet that throughout her two year journey with cancer, it was important that Alice had her partner by her side every step of the way.
“Ultimately, we tried three or four different therapies,” Doug explains. “Some of them were traditional ovarian cancer therapies, some were not. Some were used primarily, historically with other cancers. Alice did extremely well tolerating all of them, but ultimately she succumbed to the disease, and very quickly.”
Read More“We’re never gonna move on, I don’t even think I want to move on, but I do want to move forward,” Doug says. “That’s an important distinction and I encourage anybody who goes through this journey as a caregiver and then has to face loss, to think very carefully about how to move forward.”
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