Debra Jarvis: Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn't define me
黛柏.賈維斯: 沒錯,我是癌症倖存者,但那不能定義我。
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,
那家癌症醫療中心做治療,
let me just say right now,
最好現在就說,
gesture and they'll go,
get out of almost anything
we can support one another.
之後我們會有什麼感覺。
yakking about forever.
stretch his arms up over his head,
thinking about your death.
我的經驗會有什麼意義。
experience was going to mean.
claim your experience.
主張你的經驗。
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,
學到的其中一件事
how they had changed
all of her test results back
(No Evidence of Disease)。
(Not Entirely Dead)。
started retelling me the story
surgery and her chemo,
I saw her every week,
daughters got up and said,
yourself before the next stop.
「從你的十字架上下來吧。」
talk about her reasons
不是她要照顧他人,
釘在十字架上處死,
我們同在這台公車上,
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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