August 2013: End of the beginning, or beginning of the end?
'Your cancer has returned,, has spread, to other parts of your body and is incurable. Average life expectancy is 22 months"; said the Consultant
In August 2013 doctors gave me a death sentence! With that ” power gaze” the philosopher Michel Foucault described, they took away all hope and told me to prepare for the end. I searched the medical literature for some encouragement…
Since being diagnosed with cancer in 2011, my family and I have been aware that the end would come one day and it would be unpredictable. On Friday the 13 June 2014 the “grim reaper” came for me at 3:00…