{"id":1319,"date":"2013-06-20T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2013-06-20T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:44:40","slug":"healing-music-and-the-cancer-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/healing-music-and-the-cancer-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Music and the Cancer Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve worked with lots of different types of patients over the past 23 years, but today I had one of the most touching experiences that I&#8217;ve had in a long time.\u00a0 One of my current patients is experiencing cancer that began 10 years ago as ovarian cancer.\u00a0 At that time she had chemo and radiation after her surgery and lived cancer-free for 10 years.\u00a0 About a year ago, after some major life crises, she suffered a relapse of the cancer which was found in her lungs and now her brain.<\/p>\n<p>I met her a couple of months ago when she was actually referred to me as a piano student!\u00a0 This dear lady, age 74, and I have really connected around music, but today was something special!\u00a0 She is having the 4th chemo session tomorrow and was just feeling so bad today that she asked me to stop by and play something for her on her beautiful Steinway grand piano.\u00a0 I was able to do this and as she lay in her bed in the room next to the piano, I played J.S. 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