CHEMO COMFORT INC
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Mission Statement
Chemo Comfort was born from the founder’s desire to share knowledge acquired while undergoing treatment for cancer. Chemo Comfort provides cancer patients with kits of products that help manage nausea, mouth sores and hair loss, among other side effects of chemotherapy. Chemo Comfort is an all- volunteer run organization.
About This Cause
Chemo Comfort has a three-tiered program to distribute kits to cancer patients. Kits are donated through partner cancer organizations; subsidized kits are available to other cancer patients nationwide for a minimal donation; and there is a gift kit program. A newly diagnosed patient is fragile and needs to conserve her strength (mental and physical) for doctors’ appointments, medical tests and fighting with insurance companies. Energy shouldn’t go to learning what toothpaste she will need to deal with mouth sores. When given a Chemo Comfort kit, patients don’t have to figure out these practical things - everything they need is handed to them. So much is out of one’s control as a cancer patient that to be able to take positive, comforting measures for oneself, however small, is critical to easing the stresses of treatment. Cancer diagnosis is completely overwhelming. It is a time when you are desperately trying to assimilate information that is coming from all directions. Simultaneously, you cannot believe that you have to cope with this at all. Decisions affecting your life have to be made yet you are in shock. Just the other day, life was “normal.” Now you are making the rounds of surgeons and oncologists, trying to decide whom to trust with your life. And all these people are “doing” things to you - taking blood, running tests. You quickly feel a loss of control. Providing ways to help patients help themselves is a primary goal of Chemo Comfort. Though having a cup of ginger tea for nausea may seem like a small thing, especially in the large tapestry that is cancer treatment, any sense of control is beneficial. On feedback forms, 100% of respondents would recommend a Chemo Comfort kit to a friend or family member undergoing chemotherapy. Receiving a kit made many feel like someone understood what they were going through. Starting chemotherapy is a frightening experience. Buying the right toothpaste and toothbrush is pretty far down on the list of priorities. Yet, having the right products is invaluable. With Chemo Comfort kits, this isn’t something a patient finds out once mouth sores have made it painful to brush his or her teeth. We are saying to patients “Here is a box of tools put together by someone who’s been there. Know that you are not alone and these tools will help you take care of yourself during this difficult journey.”