The tunnel vision of cancer focuses me obsessively on myself. Perhaps all diseases bring egotism in their wake, for people in distress find it hard to think of anything else.
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Living With Cancer: Seeking Intimacy
Sometimes the price of cancer treatment is a loss of intimacy, writes Susan Gubar.
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Living With Cancer: Truthiness
I look and feel fine, yet the rising blood markers and the scan prove me to be ill. These antithetical perspectives split me in two.
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Living With Cancer: The Scar Project
The aftereffects of cancer and its treatments challenge our perceptions of beauty, as captured in the photos and documentary of “The Scar Project.”
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Living With Cancer: For the Birds
At times, I have to admit, there is absolutely no response to my cancer that seems acceptable to me, probably because the cancer isn’t.
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Living With Cancer: Waking in the Dark
Before cancer, I slept through the night. Now, I wake in the dark because of the pull of stitches, the pain of drains or the need to empty some bulb or bag attached to my body.
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Living With Cancer: Chemo-Feet
Prickly, frozen, cramped, numb: my feet ache as if they were tightly bound in plastic wrap or affixed on cardboard, or I don’t feel them at all. Several years ago I was infused with a standard form of chemotherapy that causes what oncologists call peripheral neuropathies.
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