How to Plan a ‘Safecation’

Posted August 17th, 2020

Summer vacation is looking a lot different due to new travel restrictions.  Traveling during a pandemic requires planning ahead, lots of advanced research, willingness to play-it-by-ear and adapting to new rules. You may be asking yourself… Is it safe to go on vacation? Where should I go? Should I drive or fly? Can I vacation […]

Demystifying Mindfulness: Mindful Vacationing-Not An Easy Task

Posted August 13th, 2018

This blog is the sixth part in the series “Demystifying Mindfulness.” I’m hoping I can help us all understand a little bit more about the practice of mindfulness, how it can be helpful and how we can integrate it into our lives. I just returned from a week long trip to Michigan. I visited my […]

The Essentials For A Cancer Vacation

Posted June 21st, 2016

My first thought—as we were hugging good-bye and someone said, “Why didn’t we do this sooner?”—was that it took something like cancer to motivate us to plan this sibs-and-mom-in-law vacation. And then the next thought was, with everyone’s crazy busy schedules these days, how does anyone have time to plan memory-making experiences with larger, extended groups of the people […]

Bob Riter

Important to Accommodate Vacations in Chemo Schedule

Posted June 22nd, 2015

Oncologists see the benefits of accommodating vacations in a cancer patient’s chemotherapy schedule. Accommodations in the treatment schedule are sometimes possible and appropriate.

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OncoLink Poll: Did you take a vacation while on cancer treatment?

Posted June 24th, 2013

OncoLink vacation poll