Debra Jarvis: Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn't define me
דברה ג'ארוויס: כן, שרדתי סרטן, אבל זה לא מה שמגדיר אותי
Debra Jarvis isn't your typical hospital chaplain. With wry wit, she aims to comfort patients -- and also challenge them. Full bio
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to get to know each other,
three things about yourself
get to your very essence.
שאנחנו נוטים לזהות עצמנו
community for a long time,
and a hospital chaplain
בהוספיס ובבית חולים
compete with her on this one.
במקרה זה.
a lot of outraged people.
cancer center where I worked,
בו עבדתי,
let me just say right now,
תנו לי להגיד את זה עכשיו וזהו,
gesture and they'll go,
get out of almost anything
כמעט מכל דבר
we can support one another.
ואנחנו יכולים לתמוך אחד בשני.
yakking about forever.
stretch his arms up over his head,
thinking about your death.
experience was going to mean.
המשמעות של החוויה שלי
claim your experience.
שלטי בחוויה שלך.
in and out of his room all the time.
ויצאו מחדרו כל הזמן.
head and we blew the bubbles,
והפרחנו בועות סבון,
and he made friends there,
והכיר חברים שם,
והכיר חברים שם
and he made friends there,
למסיבה אצלו בדירה
and me to a party in his apartment,
או אפילו כמה שנים
how they had changed
all of her test results back
בלי ממצא פתולוגי
started retelling me the story
לספר לי מחדש את הסיפור
surgery and her chemo,
I saw her every week,
daughters got up and said,
yourself before the next stop.
לפני התחנה הבאה.
שהיא אפילו הגיעה
talk about her reasons
לדבר על הסיבות שלה
אל תניחו לה לשלוט בכם.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Debra Jarvis - Chaplain + authorDebra Jarvis isn't your typical hospital chaplain. With wry wit, she aims to comfort patients -- and also challenge them.
Why you should listen
For writer, ordained minister and hospital chaplain Debra Jarvis, humor is a powerful balm. She is not afraid to be funny even when doing very serious work with the sick and dying as a hospice chaplain, a pastoral consultant for volunteer groups caring for people with AIDS and MS, and a staff chaplain at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Debra is the author of It’s Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life & Cancer and numerous other books. Currently on sabbatical in Geneva, Debra’s last job was as writer-in-residence for the University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle. In her free time, Debra accompanies her Cairn terrier Max in his therapy dog work.
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