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Tom and Christina did their best to live as normally as possible. "We would do the things that we loved more often," says Christina. "It could be an afternoon shopping with friends or going out for lunch and sitting on an outdoor terrace. The fun moments far outweighed the hospital time."Although a gallium scan showed the tumour had completely regressed, Christina felt uneasy about going back to her job as a credit analyst for the National Bank of Canada. She atlas jewelry sale on another scan. Sure enough, three months later, the tumour was back. This time it was four centimetres.Very high-dose chemotherapy was followed by a stem cell transplant. It meant being hospitalized during Easter - the biggest Greek holiday of the year. Since Christina couldn't be with her family, her family came to her - bearing plates of lamb and other traditional delicacies. "It was one of the best Easters I've ever had," says Christina.

After many blood transfusions and another scan, she learned that the tumour was completely gone. Feeling encouraged, Christina and Tom decided to take a trip to France and Greece that fall. It was a restorative month for both of them. They visited Paris and the French Riviera - St. Tropez, Monaco and Cannes - followed by a week on the island of Crete and two weeks in Athens with relatives from both families.A year later, in September 2002, another gallium scan showed the scar tissue around the tumour site diminishing "something that's very rare and very encouraging," says Tom. "It was a sign that not only was Christinas body cushion jewelry sale again, it was actually repairing the damage that had been done."That's when they decided to get married. The wedding took place on February 1, 2003, the anniversary of the couples first meeting six years earlier at a Greek dance. The big celebration was followed by a Caribbean cruise. "I never thought that we wouldn't get out of it," says Tom. "Even with all the bad news, I always had a positive outlook."

The personal care that they elsa peretti sale from the nursing staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital as well as from Christina's physician, Dr. Molly Warner, was "phenomenal," says the couple. And when Christina walked down the aisle at her own Greek wedding, Dr. Warner was thete to cheer her on.Conflict between work and home roles can result in reduced mental and physical health and poor health-related behaviours (Frone, 2003; Kivimäki et al., 2002). Conflict is also associated with low job and life satisfaction, burnout and alcohol misuse (Perrewé et al., 1999; Frone et al., 1996). These relationships are most consistent among women (Benavides et al., 2002), making workplace interventions focused on women increasingly necessary.Three main contemporary theoretical perspectives address the "problem" in work-home relationships (Sumer and Knight, 2001). The first addresses the "spillover" between the different domains, wherein what happens in one domain influences life in the other. Positive spillover from work to home is associated with better physical and mental health (Grzywacz and Marks, 2000). In "segmentation", individuals associate each domain with specific duties and actions. Rising conflict can make it difficult to segment work and home, provoking feelings of lack of control, frustration and poor physical and psychological health (Perrewé et al., 1999). Finally, individuals may "compensate" commitments frank gehry sale the two domains, which involves reducing or expanding contributions to one domain according to those of the other. Individually, these theories are unable to reflect the full concept and therefore need to be combined to understand the work-home interface (Frone, 2003).

Both internal and external influences determine individual approaches to reducing conflict. For example, personality "types" characterised by hardiness or assertiveness may attach differently to work or home (Rabin et al., 1999). Externally, levels of support and paloma picasso sale in either, or both, domains contribute to conflict (Kenny and Bhattacharjee, 2000; Fox and Dwyer, 1999). A recent Health and Safety Executive report (Daniels et al., 2002) showed that individuals variously sought changes in organisational processes and managerial support, and undertook personal avoidance behaviours to manage their risk of conflict.

Based on an understanding of "conflict" as an individualised experience, worksite programmes may employ specialist external counsellors who deliver one-to-one support. However, a more attractive approach may be to offer effective in-house programmes, delivered by existing staff, who may not be trained counsellors. However, while "theory of the problem" for work-home conflict is well developed, less is known about the "theory of the intervention" (MacDonald and Green, 2001, p. 244).