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Road to Recovery Helps Cancer Patients

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Monday, July 22, 2013   

GREENFIELD, Wis. - This year in Wisconsin, more than 31,000 people will be diagnosed with cancer, and their treatment will involve frequent trips to a medical facility. Crystal Schroeder is a breast cancer survivor from Greenfield, who volunteered to take cancer patients to their appointments through the American Cancer Society "Road To Recovery" program.

When she was having treatments herself, she said, she usually was able to drive herself to her appointments.

"However," she said, "I noticed when I was there that an awful lot of people didn't have that luxury. So, when all was said and done and I was finished with my treatments and life was going on, I just wanted to pay it forward a little bit for all those times I was helped."

Cancer patients have said transportation to and from treatment is a critical need, second only to direct financial assistance. Giving someone a ride to an appointment may seem like a little thing, Schroeder added, but it means a lot. Many people do not have access to a car, and often family members cannot help, she said.

"Having the ability to concentrate on your recovery is so important," she explained. "If I can take one of those little stressors away, like 'how am I going to get to my treatments,' I feel like I'm making a good contribution toward someone else's recovery."

If you have free time and a reliable vehicle, you can volunteer simply by visiting the American Cancer Society website, www.cancer.org.

You don't need to be a health care professional to help a cancer patient get well. By meeting simple qualifications and taking some training over the phone, you can help. And you can do it on your schedule, Schroeder said.

"In some volunteer programs you have to commit to a certain amount of hours and so on; not with this one," she said. "You do what you can when you can, and every little bit helps."

Last year, cancer patients in the American Cancer Society Midwest Division got more than 7,600 rides through the program.

More information is available at 800-227-2345 or at www.cancer.org.




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