People usually hear from the cancer patients point of view, but hearing from the cancer patient’s kid is something a lot of people don’t usually talk about, nor hear about. It’s not as often when people hear how the other party is doing in the long run while dealing with a family member or someone close to them dealing with cancer.

Sophomore Audrey Hubbard is one of the many students that isn’t very open about this topic, but deals with it very well.

“My mom, she has liver cancer. It was diagnosed last year in February.” Audrey said. ” When my mom was first diagnosed, I was in shell shock. It was so surreal, something you’d only really hear about in stories, movies, and books.”

Cancer isn’t something rare but it’s not something someone catch on the ordinary. It’s life threatening and many people don’t know how to react to it when hearing someone they’re close to gets it.

“It was really hard at first, I think that trying to stay positive was one of the hardest things to do,” Audrey said. “Overtime the best way to cope I found was to look at it really positively, and instead of counting all the things that can go wrong, count all the things that we’re doing well.”

Staying positive during a hard time is hard, but not for Audrey Hubbard. For many people being able to get their mind off of negative things by thinking about the good things they’re currently doing takes a long time to develop since it all matters on their mentality.

Audrey Hubbard stayed positive for her mom so she wouldn’t have to stress out about her. But what kind of support does Audrey think she needs in return as well as how does she care for herself.

“For me I think it’s really nice to confide in people, and just be able to talk about it. It’s really hard to just stay positive and not have any worries about it, but being able to sit down and talk about my worries then being able to come to a conclusion with having a positive outcome is what I really like,” Audrey said. “It’s not always about how I feel, and it gives me an opportunity to become a responsible, less self-absorbed person.”

Audrey Hubbard is considerate and deals with the situation well for a 17 year old.

“The advice I’d give someone going through the same thing as me, don’t see everything as permanent,” Audrey said “Its important to see things with an encouraging perspective and to believe and have faith that things will get better, look at it as a way for improvement.”