2 hour meeting answer #3

1. How can a family best cope with a breast cancer diagnosis?
2. A family can greatly cope and benefit from keeping in contact with and using The American Cancer Society
3. The American Cancer Society every year holds a numerous amount of events that greatly benefit all types of cancer. The american cancer society has many other types of programs for families such as support groups. Not only that they have programs for the diagnosed as an individual such as the look good feel better program. The American Cancer Society holds many ways for any individual to get involved.
4. Cancer.org really helped me because it leads to other links that I can use to learn more about the support programs and other programs available specifically I used the support group. link.
5. I plan to study the making strides against breast cancer event. I also plan to understand more of the breast cancer specific events and attending a breast cancer support group to further my understanding. 

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way for a family to cope with a breast cancer diagnosis? 
2. How did having breast cancer affect you?
3. How would you describe your life before having breast cancer?
4. And then how would you describe your life after breast cancer?
5. What age were your children at the time of your diagnosis?
6. What treatment did you go through and for how long?
7. What types of coping methods did you personally peruse
8. Did you encourage your family to engage in any coping mechanisms? If you did what were they? If you didn't, do you wish you would have, and what types?
9. Can you describe to me ways that the American Cancer Society is helpful?
10. What roles and or new responsibilities did your husband have to take on?
11. For you as an individual, what was the hardest part of your diagnosis?
12. What was the hardest part for your family?
13. Initially, did you want to tell your kids, and how did you think they would handle it?
14. As time progresses, does it become easier to handle? What makes you think this?
15. Having helped out with the breast cancer support group for a very long time, what can you tell me about how younger children handle knowing about a breast cancer diagnosis?
16. Seeing as you are a founder of the support group, what made you start this group?
17. If you could, would you have started one with your family?
18. Who was your main supporter throughout your treatment? In what was were they there for you and did you notice it taking a toll on them?
19. How did you feel telling your family?
20. If you could say anything to a family struggling with a new diagnosis, what would it be? Is there anything specific you would recommend to them, if so what?

2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. How can a family best cope with a breast cancer diagnosis?
2. The family of the diagnosed should empower themselves with knowledge.
3.The family shouldn't leave everything up to the doctor. Nor should they expect that they are going to receive all the information needed from the doctor.
When people hear that they have been diagnosed with cancer their minds instantly go to death. While the doctor is talking they don't hear everything that has been said. It is up to them and their families to look up their diagnosis to fill in those blanks.
Knowing more about something always makes a person feel like they are more in control.
4.In all four of my interviews I was told from their professional opinion, the best way to cope with a cancer diagnosis is through knowledge. My interviews gave me this answer but the source that helped me support it greatly was "Stand By Her- A breast Cancer guide for men."
5.I plan to continue my study of my answer 2 by continuing to work at the American Cancer Society, and by sitting in and working with support groups to see if my answer really is true.

Independent Component approval 2 plan approval

1. I plan on meeting with these women, interviewing them and or their families, and taking pictures of the effects breast cancer has had on their bodies. I plan on placing this all together as a form of book that can be used to share with newly diagnosed women as a coping method.
2.Meeting with the women and doing interviews. Spending time talking to them, taking pictures and really learning their stories
3. This independent component will help show validity with all of my answers by interviewing multiple women and hearing their stories and the way my answers correlate with them.

Independent Component 1

Literal:
A) I Kendall Delgado, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
B) I had a total of two mentors for my independent component, Janice Chow from the American Cancer Society office in Pasadena (213-507-7169). And Brenda Godbold  (661-327-7827) at the office in Bakersfield.
C) hours
D) Throughout working in these two offices as a legislative ambassador, my job has been promoting awareness. While being an ambassador is a long process that I am still in the beginnings of, I was able to help promote awareness through the organization of events. Though at times it seemed tedious it really did help me to see how much work goes into these events. The organization mainly consisted of helping out the office secretaries, making copies, going to the bank, wrapping gifts, setting up booths etc.
Interpretive:

These pictures are clips of my email sent to further me into the process of an ambassador. The photo of the booth above is a booth I set up at a women's health convention in Pasadena.

Applied:

Becoming a legislative ambassador has really helped me with my foundation because it places me in the spot of the people who are there to help. The people I work with go into this because they want to help and promote awareness. They could have done anything with their lives but they chose this. Many people I work with are volunteers as well. So it really helped me to see that while people diagnosed with cancer are going through a hardship there are plenty of others there to help them deal with this process. This also has really helped me to see and understand the awareness aspect of cancer, doing everything there is possible to prevent it from occurring.

With my topic being breast cancer and attending the women's health it helped me to look at other aspects of other adult women's lives. Calling people and asking them to become involved really showed me as well how many people are willing to help.

I hope that as I continue the process I will be one of the ambassadors picked to attend a meeting at the capitol and promote cancer awareness bills to our legislators.

Rough Draft 30 min presentation

30 min rough draft

Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to cope with having cancer?
2. After spending so much time with people who have been diagnosed with cancer, what books would you recommend to them?
3. What about the families and friends of the diagnosed? What types of coping methods would you recommend to them?
4. What do you look for in a person that would make you recommend other types of methods to them?
5. How has being around people going through such a hard point in their life effected you?
6. What methods of coping could you recommend to those who are younger?
7. Why would you recommend those?
8. Do you feel that it is important for a person diagnosed to take care of themselves and act as though the disease does not exist? Or they should work with it? Why or why not.
9. To you, does coping with anything difficult in life, not just cancer, take root in taking care of
   themselves as an individual first? Why?
10.  If you could say anything to someone who has been newly diagnosed and has lost hope, what would it be?