title: Cancer Triptych.
abstract: The author uses personal narrative to show how the cold cloak of cancer covered her family during the polar vortex of 2013-2014. The use of a triptych form hinges together related themes of containment, coping, communicative responses, and social support after a cancer diagnosis. This narrative demonstrates the multiple responses and communicative coping strategies to a cancer diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , Bowling Green State University.
authors.forename: Sandra L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Faulkner
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D012944:Social Support; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery