{"id":976,"date":"2014-01-08T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2015-02-06T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:34:06","slug":"valerie-harper-on-cancer-prepare-for-tomorrow-but-live-for-today-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/valerie-harper-on-cancer-prepare-for-tomorrow-but-live-for-today-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Harper on Cancer: Prepare for Tomorrow But Live for Today! – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valerie Harper refuses to be cowed by cancer. Battling incurable cancer, the 74-year-old Emmy-award winning actress is living each day to the fullest. She\u2019s prepared for the inevitable end of life but has already outlived doctors\u2019 predictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis diagnosis makes you live one day at a time, and that\u2019s what everyone should do: Live moment to moment to moment,\u201d Valerie told AARP Magazine<\/i><\/a> <\/i>in an interview.<\/p>\n

Although never a smoker, in 2009 Valerie was diagnosed with lung cancer<\/a>, the same cancer that killed her mother (also a non-smoker). After surgery to remove the tumor, she returned to acting. While rehearsing for the Broadway show Looped<\/i> early in 2013, she started having memory problems. Doctors in New York found cancer cells in the meninges tissue that surrounds the brain, leading the press to report that she had brain cancer. When she returned home to Los Angeles, Valerie\u2019s oncologist diagnosed her condition as inoperable metastasis of her earlier lung cancer.<\/p>\n

Since then Valerie has been treating her cancer with a combination of traditional and alternatives at an alternative cancer treatment<\/a> center and says she is so far holding her own. \u201cThis diagnosis makes you live one day at a time, and that\u2019s what everyone should do,\u201d Valerie counsels; \u201cLive moment to moment to moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Valerie has also insisted on preparing for the end of life whenever it comes. That part of dealing with cancer has been difficult for her husband of 26 years, Tony Cacciotti. \u201cValerie is a realist,\u201d Tony told AARP. \u201cAnd she worries more about others than herself. She worries about what\u2019s going to happen to us when she\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Valerie Harper refuses to be cowed by cancer. Battling incurable cancer, the 74-year-old Emmy-award winning actress is living each day to the fullest. She\u2019s prepared for the inevitable end of life but has already outlived doctors\u2019 predictions. \u201cThis diagnosis makes you live one day at a time, and that\u2019s what everyone should do: Live moment … Continue reading Valerie Harper on Cancer: Prepare for Tomorrow But Live for Today! – Part One<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,231,204],"tags":[259,317],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-cancer","category-cancer-survivors","category-living-with-cancer","tag-fighting-cancer","tag-surviving-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}