Dr. Renee Alsarraf: ...that dogs meet us where we are

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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If you, or someone you care about, has had cancer, you’ll find this episode of special interest. And, if you’ve had a pet with cancer, you’ll also want to pay close attention! Joining us is veterinary oncologist Dr. Renee Alsarraf who’s treated dogs with cancer for more than two decades, and few years ago, she herself was diagnosed with cancer. She writes about her experiences in the new book, "SIT, STAY, HEAL: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well". Her website is https://www.sitstayhealbook.com/.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. If you or someone you care about has had cancer, you'll find this episode of special interest. And if you've ever had a pet with cancer,
0:21.2	you'll also want to pay special attention. Yeah, because joining us is veterinary oncologist,
0:26.9	Dr. Renee Alsarraf, who's treated dogs with cancer for more than two decades. A few years ago,
0:32.9	she herself was diagnosed with cancer. And in a new book, she writes about how her four-legged patients
0:38.7	helped her cope with the diagnosis and treatment thanks to their positivity and unconditional
0:44.1	love. The book is called Sit, Stay, Heal, What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well.
0:50.7	Doctor, thank you so much for joining us. Oh, the pleasure is all mine. Thank you for having me.
0:55.8	Tell us why you decided to write this book. I have always wanted to write a book, just like so
1:03.1	many people would come up to me and say that they had always wanted to be a veterinarian.
1:07.4	But as a veterinarian, for me and for many of us, it's more than a job. It's more than even a
1:13.9	profession. It's how I identify myself. And all of my time is spent doing veterinary medicine.
1:22.2	I never could even imagine doing something else or having room for something else. When I was diagnosed, I took
1:29.9	to emailing a bunch of friends and family members to let them know how I was faring because
1:36.0	at the time I didn't have any social media. And it just drained me to have the stories, you know,
1:42.0	about my chemotherapy or surgery told over and over.
1:46.0	Many people would write back kind words, words of support, which became a lifeline for me.
1:53.2	But a lot of other people also wrote, have you ever thought about writing a book?
1:57.7	You really should write a book.
1:59.3	I blew them all off, finished my therapy,
2:02.1	I might bump into them at the Whole Foods. They said, hey, have you started your book? I still
2:06.6	blew them all off. And my husband and I, a couple months after, went to a resort in Rhode Island.
2:14.6	And at our hotel room door, they brought the the newspaper. So of course, I only read
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