Massage therapist Rochelle Leffler, right, works with Nasea Gratz, left, during the final clinic of the year at Miller Childrens Hospital with Greet the Day, an Orange County nonprofit. Greet the Day works in hospitals across Southern California, giving 20-minute massages to cancer patients with modifications for them. (Ana Venegas/Orange County Register/TNS)
Using light massage to soothingly combat the assault that chemotherapy and radiation launch on the bodies of cancer patients isn’t new, but it is rather controversial.
NANSEA Gratz pulled off her fleece beanie, the kind with little ears, revealing wisps of gray hair on an otherwise bald head. She removed her fuzzy pink socks and asked an attentive massage therapist to touch her feet, because the peripheral nerves there were damaged and weak.
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