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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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What to Say to Someone With Cancer: Real Words That Help, What Never Does, and How to Show Up for Someone You Love

What to Say to Someone With Cancer: Real Words That Help, What Never Does, and How to Show Up for Someone You Love

Shilling, Ellen

Paperback

CancerDeath & DyingGeneral Parenting

ISBN13: 9798189459368
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
You don't have to know what to say.

Someone you love just heard the words you have cancer - and you're staring at a text you keep typing and deleting. Say the wrong thing? Say nothing? Everyone around a diagnosis freezes. Almost nobody teaches us what to do instead.

Ellen Shilling learned from the chair. Diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin's lymphoma just weeks after bringing home her first baby, she spent a year and a half in treatment - two failed regimens, a septic-shock scare, and the stem cell transplant that finally worked - noticing, from the receiving end, exactly which words helped, which ones quietly wounded, and what real showing up looks like.

This is the book she wrote from the far side of it. Inside:

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