A little quality time with a sweet dog can go a long way when you’re undergoing cancer treatment, just ask Richard Marks. Richard has bone marrow cancer, he has to go to Mount Sinai for chemotherapy five days a month and spends several hours at the hospital each visit. The pooches of The Good Dog Foundation help make those hours spent getting chemo a whole lot easier, and a lot cuter too.
“When I’m doing chemotherapy, I’m waiting and times going by. Maybe I’m worrying about my numbers or how treatment is going. And all of the sudden a cute little dog goes by, then I’m not thinking about those things,” Richard says. “I’m only thinking about that dog.”
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