Debra Jarvis: Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn't define me
டெப்ரா ஜார்விஸ்: ஆமாம், நான் புற்று நோயிலிருந்து பிழைத்தவள். ஆனால் அது என் அடையாளமல்ல.
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.
community for a long time,
and a hospital chaplain
compete with her on this one.
a lot of outraged people.
cancer center where I worked,
let me just say right now,
gesture and they'll go,
get out of almost anything
we can support one another.
yakking about forever.
stretch his arms up over his head,
thinking about your death.
experience was going to mean.
claim your experience.
in and out of his room all the time.
head and we blew the bubbles,
and he made friends there,
and he made friends there,
and me to a party in his apartment,
how they had changed
all of her test results back
started retelling me the story
surgery and her chemo,
I saw her every week,
daughters got up and said,
yourself before the next stop.
talk about her reasons
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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