Share Your Story: Joy Clausen Soto

<p>Joy Clausen Soto is the founder of the annual Dolphin Interaction Program for patients from Rady Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Joy is a Stage 2 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivor, a dolphin trainer, TEDx speaker, and the director and subject of the documentary <i>Just One Year –A story of triumph over cancer. </i></p> <ul><li>01:46: I had this cough, and the cough wouldn't go away, kept getting worse and worse instead of better. </li><li>03:45: We went to urgent care which is right around the corner from where he lived.</li><li>05:10: The next week I was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin's lymphoma and my diagnosis ended up changing.</li><li>07:50: What did the doctor tell you about the diagnosis and what were your expectations about it? </li><li>09:27: That's one of the things I would tell people to do is to make sure you get someone else to check out your slides to make sure it is what it is.</li><li>11:07: Did you have to go down to Children's Hospital Los Angeles?</li><li>13:03: What happened with film school? </li><li>17:06: He was there for me for every single chemotherapy treatment, every blood transfusion. </li><li>19:32: Did you go back to film school? </li><li>22:12: You have to be selfish and that's what I did. </li><li>24:09: What was your worst moment?</li><li>26:20: What was your best moment? </li><li>27:47: What is one thing you wish you had known at the very beginning of your cancer journey? </li><li>28:36: If you could only do one thing to improve health care in the US, what would it be and why? </li><li>30:11: Are you ready for the Thriver Rapid Fire questions? </li><li>32:16: Aside from Cancer U, what would recommend for cancer patients and caregivers? </li></ul> <p>Resources</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.joyclausensoto.com/" target="_blank">Joy’s website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-clausen-soto/" target="_blank">Joy on LinkedIn</a></li><li>Joy’s book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Joy-dolphin-trainer-filmmaker-survivor-ebook/dp/B0