the dog. The story goes on to describe the hospital and what happens there to make a person feel better with the kinds of treatments they may receive to get to feel better. Both the boy and the dog think of ways of making themselves feel better as well. This is when the author shows the psychological aspect of getting better, as the boy is seeing himself playing baseball and the dog sees himself just being around the boy running.Hospitals and treatments can be scary when you’re a child and have been diagnosed with cancer or any other life-threatening illness. In We’ll Get through This Together, a black lab accompanies a young boy going through cancer treatment. From entering the hospital, to meeting the doctors and nurses, to taking medicine, the patient and the dog journey side by side.
Told from the lab’s perspective, this picture book for children offers comfort and provides reassurance that they’ll get through it together.
In addition, We’ll Get through This Together explains the profound connection between children, our canine best friends, the cancers they both develop, and the promise of comparative cancer research to speed the development of new and better medicines for both. All proceeds from the sale of this book go toward Project Hearts-N-Tails, a program of the Canines-N-Kids Foundation.
The Canines-N-Kids Foundation
About the Author
Ulrike Szalay is founder of the Canines-N-Kids Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to end to the cancers that kids and their canine best friends both develop. Since 2016, the organization has melded science and medicine to speed the development of new and better drugs for both these vulnerable cancer patient groups. Szalay’s business background includes more than a dozen years in small biotech (oncology). She has three children and is a devoted dog mom who lives in northern Virginia with her family.
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