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
Every year I am offered an appointment with an oncologist to see how I am, it’s usually with a registrar rather than a consultant. If it’s one I know I will start the conversation with “don’t look so depressed because…
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…