I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends: The Role of the Support Group in Breast Cancer Survivorship

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Mind you, my support group meetings aren’t nonstop laugh riots, but neither are they gloom-and-doom fests. My sisters help me gain perspective as I navigate the road of the survivor. I think the Merriam-Webster Dictionary hit the proverbial bull’s-eye, because its definition of “support” includes, as a noun, a “thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright,” and as a verb, “to keep from fainting, yielding, or losing courage.” My support group has personified these qualities and much, much more.