Gifts for Someone Starting Chemotherapy

They may have a lot of pills in their life, this may help them make light of it.

For the nausea that comes with treatment. Practical, a little funny, and genuinely useful.

Everything they need to make something with their hands, from the couch. Quiet, absorbing, and a break from thinking about anything else.

Sometimes there really isn't a good card. This one says it.

Hospitals are bright. Help them block some of it out.

Not everyone will get it. But the right person absolutely will.

Never under estimate the gift of doing something the your hands. 

A weekly question emailed to someone you love for a year — then their answers, bound into a hardcover book. 

Keeps their coffee or tea at the exact right temperature for hours. Perfect for people whose day gets interrupted a hundred times and whose drink always goes cold.

An easy way to pass the time with pictures of better times.

Remind them of better times with a favorite photo, one piece at a time.

Give the gift of mental rot. No thinking required.

"Foot massages lets her know she’s not alone sitting next to her friend but also a place where it’s 100 percent acceptable not to talk at all." Suggested by: anonymous 

Something to do with their hands while they swear about it.

"Real flowers are beautiful, but they die so quickly. I sent her paper flowers that she wouldn't have to take care of."  Suggested by: anonymous