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Originally Posted by Whynotnow
Sitting in the doctors office being told my wife not only has 2 tumours in her breast but also had spread to the adjacent lymph nodes. Turns out her prognosis is pretty good, this was 2 years ago and she had surgery, chemo, and radiation. You always live with it though. It happened 6 weeks after my dad died of cancer pretty suddenly and her news rocked me, I had very little way of coping with it, knowing I needed to support her, my 2 boys and keep myself fine all while still racked with grief. Tough, tough days.
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That's a tough road. I felt like I wasn't prepared to be in so many roles.
I had two full time pharmacists and one part time. One of my Pharmacists decided to take on their own store in another town and gave their notice. Two weeks later my other pharmacist gave their notice as they were moving. One week after that we got the news. I couldn't get any relief/locum Pharmacists at all so I was working all the time and trying to keep the boys' lives as normal as possible, while still trying to be there for my wife. Most of the appointments were an hour away in Kamloops so lots of travel and trying to beg pharmacist friends to help out. The struggle was overwhelming trying to hold it all together.
This is where community kicked in. Salmon Arm is a pretty small city (20,000ish). We had only moved here a little over 1 year earlier and didn't know to many people but both my wife and I are fairly outgoing and had met quite a few people. A Pharmacist in a competing pharmacy called me up and gave me the info for a relief Pharmacist that was going to cover his holidays and he cancelled his holidays and arranged things so I could use him before he called me. Some of the Moms from my kids school helped out with the boys whenever we had to go out of town. After the surgery we came home to fresh bread and meals every night for a week, some from people we barely even knew. There was a knock on the door and fresh cinnamon buns were on the welcome mat. Those people will never know just how much that helped