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
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Reaching 60 years was my second milestone and I realised “incurable” just means the doctors don’t know how to fix it.
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…
Its only your hands and feet, cant be too bad.
When I tell people I had lost all sensation in my hands and feet after chemotherapy they would often say, that’s not too bad. I suppose if you compare it to losing your eyesight or losing a limb it doesn’t…
The end of the beginning
Starting the recovery after chemotherapy