{"id":28562,"date":"2022-12-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oncolink.org\/blogs\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:13:09","slug":"new-years-wishes-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/new-years-wishes-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Wishes 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oncolink.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob_Riter.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Riter\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Riter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019d like to give myself a magic wand at this time of the year to grant wishes to those affected by cancer. This was a wish list I put together in 2015, yet it is still relevant. Maybe this will be the year my wishes come true!<\/p>\n<p>Here are my wishes for the upcoming year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wish that our friends and acquaintances would stop giving us advice.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that bake sales and chicken barbecues to raise money for people with cancer weren\u2019t necessary.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that people with cancer weren\u2019t beaten over the head with the importance of positive thinking.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that every employee in every hospital and doctor\u2019s office greeted each patient and family member with a smile and kind word.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that modest advances in cancer research weren\u2019t portrayed as major breakthroughs in the popular media.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that people with cancer didn\u2019t make treatment decisions based on old information and long-held assumptions.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that everyone with cancer felt comfortable expressing their actual wishes, without being influenced by family members or caregivers.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that more people received hospice care earlier than in their last week or two of life.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that people didn\u2019t make treatment decisions clouded by anxiety and\/or depression.<\/li>\n<li>I wish that people with lung cancer weren\u2019t asked, \u201cDid you smoke?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I wish that everyone with cancer felt a connection to a community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that these wishes won\u2019t all come true in the next year, but I remain the optimist.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted with Permission from the Ithaca Journal<br \/>Publication Date: December 28, 2015<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bob Riter is the Executive Director of the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. He can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"dcbeb3be9cbfaebfbab0f2b2b9a8\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/2022\/12\/new-years-wishes-2016\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Riter I\u2019d like to give myself a magic wand at this time of the year to grant wishes to those affected by cancer. This was a wish list I put together in 2015, yet it is still relevant. Maybe this will be the year my wishes come true! Here are my wishes for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44764,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28562\/revisions\/44764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}