Your Spouse Has Cancer, Now What?
Author raises funds to create an educational DVD series, helping spouses of cancer patients find strength, support, and a better understanding of what comes next after diagnosis
SANGER, Calif., November 2014 — What would you do if your spouse were diagnosed with cancer? While there are pamphlets, support groups, and organizations for the patients, where can spouses find answers to their questions? With the help of Kickstarter, author Carson Boss is raising funds to create The Couple’s Cancer Project, an interactive and educational DVD series for couples where one spouse has been diagnosed.
The project came to life after Boss wrote about the confusion and struggles he faced when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. In his book, Your Wife Has Cancer, Now What?, he discusses the emotional roller coaster that followed her diagnosis. With few resources to help him understand, adjust, and prepare for his wife’s cancer, he began to note all the things he wished someone had told him. While the book is written specifically with husbands in mind, the DVD series provides information for couples to draw from together.
“I want to bring the hope and information directly to the viewer,” says Boss. “These DVDs are something I wish I had when I started the journey through my wife’s cancer.”
Using personal experiences as outlined in the book, The Couple’s Cancer Project will help spouses learn how to:
Overcome the shock and fear of diagnosis
Talk to family about diagnosis and treatment updates
Choose the right doctors
Give support and know where to find it
Understand the cost of cancer both financially and emotionally
Continue and nurture their romance
Balance a full-time job and new household duties
The series will include 4 DVDs with 45 minutes of content on each disk. Interviews with patients, their family members, oncologists, nurses, and leading cancer experts from the Huntsman Cancer Institute provide a well-rounded look at how to face cancer as a couple. At the end of each chapter is an “Action Plan” and “Check List” for viewers to complete together. This encourages couples to ask questions and implement what is taught.
“Every cancer is different and so is every couple,” says Boss. “These DVDs will be made for couples to watch together so they can stop and discuss certain points. Then they customize their own plan of action in dealing with whatever kind of medical trial they are facing together. Independent of which spouse has been diagnosed, this series will help both husbands and wives. It’s like they’ll have a support group right in their own living room.”
While filming has been completed, raised funds will be used for editing, packaging, and mastering. If you would like more information on the DVD series, feel free to visit our Kickstarter site (see below). If you are interested in seeing this project completed and released, please consider purchasing one of the pledge packages listed in the link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1160678616/the-couples-cancer-project
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