It was 1968. I was a junior in college, studying fine arts, independence and life in general. Things were pretty terrific. This mysterious disease called cancer had changed my life forever. Twenty-eight years later, I watched as my son, Doug Ulman, was diagnosed with cancer at age 19.
Cancer is less mysterious now than it was years ago.
But it is still a powerful disease that can crash down on a wonderful, hopeful, youthful life and change it forever. In a split second, in August of 1996, everything changed for our son and our family. In this brochure I will set forth some of our experiences, my reactions, observations, and perspectives, as a parent trying to help a young adult child facing cancer. In addition I will include information that might be helpful to other parents as they face challenges similar to ours. Much of this pamphlet sets forth ideas that we found helpful and that we wish we had been told along the way.