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Dave Balch cared for his wife
during four bouts with breast cancer.
Now he's sharing what he learned about coping with personal challenges.
Featured in
The Wall Street Journal
Humorous, poignant stories
plus powerful and inspiring videos from their
experience
leave a lasting impression for long-term retention of key points.
Dave's story resonates with healthcare and corporate
audiences alike, as the lessons he shares apply to most of life's
challenges, not just cancer.
Healthcare audiences
(whether or not in direct patient contact):
- easily translate the cancer experience to many
different illnesses
- gain a new perspective on the patient experience,
resulting in
- better understanding
- more compassion
- improved patient care
- learn coping skills they can share with patients who
need them
- learn coping skills they can use to deal with their
own challenges
- gain new appreciation for why they do what they do
- earn 1 unit of CE credit (for appropriate
professional staff)
Corporate audiences:
- easily relate the cancer experience to other
challenges in their own lives or the lives of friends and family
- learn general coping skills they can use to deal with
their own challenges, which will:
- lower stress levels
- allow them to remain more productive
- reduce "down time"
Dave supported his wife through four
successful bouts with breast cancer, going with her to over 250 medical
appointments and caring for her during six surgeries, two rounds of
chemotherapy, and three rounds of radiation treatments. He did everything
from bathing her to making her meals to changing her surgical dressings,
all while maintaining his home software business and taking care of a
ranch, two horses, two cats, two dogs, and a really mean parrot.
(She's doing fine now, and Dave takes all
the credit!)
Most importantly, he and his wife both kept their sense
of humor through it all (well, most of it) as they laughed and
ate their way through the entire ordeal.
Together.
Dave says that this experience, although difficult, was
the most rewarding and fulfilling of his life. And, as a professional
communicator, he is in the perfect position to help others. He has a
unique, inspiring, and loving story to share, coupled with the experience,
desire, and ability to share it.
Summary of Accomplishments:
- Featured in The Wall Street Journal
- Author, Cancer for Two: An Inspiring True Story
and Guide for Cancer Patients and Their Partners, approved by:
- The Susan G. Komen Foundation
- The Wellness Community
- Founder, The Patient/Partner Project
- Has been sponsored by a major pharmaceutical company
that:
- purchased 35,000 copies of Cancer
for Two
- sent him to 41 programs in 19 states in 2007 alone!
- Contributing author, Coping with Cancer
magazine
In his “previous life,” Dave spent over 30 years as an
IT (Information Technology) professional in capacities as programmer,
project manager, database administrator, and consultant. In 1982 he
developed a software tool for database administrators and programmers,
which he sold into the corporate market from his home business for over 20
years.
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Watch video (11:07, includes videos from program)
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inspiring program.
1-800-366-2347
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