Wanda Dudley's journey from careg...
Wanda Dudley's journey from caregiver to Caregiving advocate

Many Hats by HOWARD DUKES

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Wife, mother, granddaughter, journalist, executive producer of WSBT’s HomeTown Living, event planner at a local university and member of the D-9 sorority Zeta Phi Beta are among the many roles played and hats worn by Wanda Dudley. In the fall of 2005, Dudley added another hat – caregiver. The road that launched Dudley’s entrepreneurial journey started that year when her husband, Chris, was diagnosed with cancer. Chris’ survivor journey and Wanda’s caregiver journey started at the same time as my survivor journey and Gail’s caregiver journey. I would wave to Chris and Wanda as I passed them in Memorial Hospital’s oncology unit after completing my radiation treatment and before Chris’ session began. Fortunately, Chris and I have been cancer free for 20 years. However, Gail and Wanda have spent much of the last 20 as caregivers for parents, grandpar ... 

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