She found comfort in the Toon Hermans Huis in Amersfoort, named after the well-known comedian who himself died of cancer. Although the threshold to enter was great, Coby says himself, the welcome was more than warm. “You get an arm around you and they talk to you.” It’s not necessary to keep yourself tall, let alone burden someone with your story. Attention is paramount in this walk-in house. “Even if I tell it twenty times, I can say it here.”
Walk-in home for living with and after cancer: “Here I can be myself”
