When lawyer Sarah Donnelly was diagnosed with breast cancer, she turned to her friends and family for support — but she also found meaning, focus and stability in her work. In a personal talk about why and how she stayed on the job, she shares her insights on how workplaces can accommodate people going through major illnesses — because the benefits go both ways.
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Work is always my my motivation to live. I don’t want to go out so much. My work is learning the languages. And I admire her so much :-0
I worked through chemo too and was glad for it. But payroll and disability insurance had fits trying to figure things out lol Congrats, Sarah!
Happy to know that some people can cure them and working but for the majority of workers work is a health problem, stress, polution and many others tricks !
Thanks Sigmund Freud! Enjoy your cocaine and crazy ideas about the human psyche!
Late stage capitalism.
Better than terminal Socialism.
Thats a good one.
I think is sad
Can you try that as a complete sentence? What do you think is sad?
Be alkaline and stay alkaline
Agree, balance is important more than ever it seems.
Thank you for sharing this and congrats to you and your mom on both beating cancer! Your journeys and the medical advances in finding what works to keep you feeling well and productive benefit everyone who has to walk that path. This gives me so much hope.
Well good for you that your treatment kept you alive to talk about it. That isn’t always the case and some have awful struggles through treatment and in the US they have to “show up” at work just to keep insurance that covers the treatments not to mention that they may need the income. Disability coverage here can put many families in a deep financial hole which adds stress to the cancer patient.
The trick is to forget about the disease. It doesn’t matter whether u work or not during treatment. Forgetting is the hardest part but doable.
Wow! Beautiful and amazing women!
If work made it easier to go through cancer that’s just sad
My brother had cancer and it was REALLY hard for him and my family
I was just diagnosed with breast cancer last week, I needed this video right at this moment. I’m sitting at work right now wondering how I’m going to keep going. As a women of faith, it’s moments like this I know God hears me.
K Ireland You can do it!
Is this Humans of Late Capitalism?
great