Things you can do

Things you can do

Looking after you first is the best thing you can do when you have cancer. As mob, we often put family needs before our own but with cancer, your health and wellbeing must be the priority until you are strong enough to caring for others like you used to doing. Mob who have had cancer say that one way we can care for mob when we have cancer is to put our own needs and our own bodies first.

It is important to know that you can get help. Here are some tips from mob:

• find support wherever you can
• ask questions and get information
• find things that help you to stay positive
• yarn with family, Elders and friends and tell them about how you are feeling
• Stay close to community
• ask for practical help to manage family and your household
• spend time on Country
• yarn with your doctor, nurse or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health worker.

You might want to take some time out.

You can read here about the tests you might have.