HELP! Someone I Love Has Cancer: How You Can Really Make a Difference

by Joel Hughes

What Do You Say? What Do You Not Say? How Can You Really Help? In 2015, Joel and Rebekah were married. Seven months later, Joel’s dad was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer. A month after that, at the age of 26, Rebekah was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. What do you say? What do you do? These questions, and many others, are answered in this book. The answers come from real life, learned in the trenches and valleys of fighting cancer and learning to love through it.
You will discover : ✓ How a tragedy can turn into a triumph ✓ How to understand what cancer is and how it’s treated ✓ How not to be one of the many Well-Intentioned Dragons ✓ How to really help your loved one through their journey ✓ How to implement many practical ideas to love, support, and help You have more power to help than you may think. If you feel like you don’t know what to do or say, this book is for you. Joel Hughes is a husband and father. He is also the author of In Your Corner , WHY Does God Allow Things Like Cancer? , and EPIC Hope. He's the producer of the award-winning documentary, A Brave Hope , and director of Rebekah’s Hope . He holds degrees in Christian ministry and philosophy. Joel lives in Southern Oregon with his wife, Rebekah.

120 pages, Paperback

Published July 5, 2018

About the author

First, I'm a husband and dad to my two kids. We live in Orange County, CA. I've been writing for about 20 years, usually about Christian living, theology, philosophy, apologetics, and culture. When my dad, and then my young wife, were both diagnosed with stage four cancer within a couple of months apart, our world changed. I wrote my current book to help people know what to say and do when something like that happens. It will help readers know how to love a friend or family member with a critical illness.

I will be releasing a larger book soon called "In Your Corner". It's about my personal journey as a husband and a caretaker to my wife, Rebekah, with stage four breast cancer. Over the last two years, we have also filmed a documentary about Rebekah's life, journey, and faith through cancer. It's called "A Brave Hope" and will be out soon.

My passions are reading, learning, writing, and creating things. We love to hit up garage sales, thrift stores, and antique stores. We enjoy refurbishing old furniture and making old things, new. Geesh, we sound old. I'm 40 and Rebekah is 30. But we are quite nerdy. We love to relax in bed, watch our shows on Netflix, and eat ice cream.

Last year we started "Rebekah's Hope" to house our books and movie. Rebekah's Hope exists to educate, encourage, and empower anyone walking the cancer journey. We want people to know that there is always hope.

Reviews

[K'la Brasseur · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely enjoyed reading this book, it’s full of wonderful ideas of things to do and not to do. I’ve had the privelage to know Rebekah and her family personally, and to see the transformation and all the lord has done continues to do blows my mind. She is so strong, courageous, genuine and loving...thank you Joel for making this book happen! It was an amazing perspective and brings things to light with Real responses you get from people and how they aren’t always “helpful” but maybe even more damaging! Thankful for the good ideas as well. I know I have been both a dragon and angel to friends without knowing it, this was a very easy read and helpful to those who just don’t know how to be helpful to a friend or family member in need.

[Betty Morgan]

This book was very helpful while going through the changes that cancer has made to our lives.