We'll Get Through This Together!
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Doctors are wearing white coats and sometimes talk too fast and say things you don’t understand. Nurses come to see you with strange machines that beep and drip, and sometimes you even get hooked up to the machines.
They all smile and are here to help you, but sometimes it is still scary and strange.
When you feel like that, just hold me close. I promise we’ll get through this together!
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About the Book
Hospitals and treatments can be scary when you’re a child and have been diagnosed with cancer or any other life-threatening illness. In We’ll Get through This Together, a black lab accompanies a young boy going through cancer treatment. From entering the hospital, to meeting the doctors and nurses, to taking medicine, the patient and the dog journey side by side.
Told from the lab’s perspective, this picture book for children offers comfort and provides reassurance that they’ll get through it together.
In addition, We’ll Get through This Together explains the profound connection between children, our canine best friends, the cancers they both develop, and the promise of comparative cancer research to speed the development of new and better medicines for both. All proceeds from the sale of this book go toward Project Hearts-N-Tails, a program of the Canines-N-Kids Foundation.
About the Author
Ulrike Szalay is founder of the Canines-N-Kids Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to end to the cancers that kids and their canine best friends both develop. Since 2016, the organization has melded science and medicine to speed the development of new and better drugs for both these vulnerable cancer patient groups. Szalay’s business background includes more than a dozen years in small biotech (oncology). She has three children and is a devoted dog mom who lives in northern Virginia with her family.