I am in here.
It finally hit me last night — the fear. I suppose that it had to, eventually. I spent a lot of the week in a combination of denial and optimism. Too much was happening at once, and it takes a while for you to realize that “You have cancer” means that “You have cancer.” All … Continue reading Monday morning, first post
Preventable cancer. That’s real high on my list of things now. I think the Cheerful Oncologist would agree. I wonder if he’s anything like Wilson? The Cheerful Oncologist You gotta love cigarette smokers, if for nothing else but their cognitive dissonance.
It turns out that a good friend of ours, Jim, not only has my same sort of cancer, but my same oncologist. I get to meet this oncologist at lunchtime, and I meet Jim for coffee in half an hour. I’m starting to feel normal again, except for the great drowsiness that Ambien brings. Mockingbird, … Continue reading strength in unity, or somesuch
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. — Gilda Radner
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