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...original spot from which the tumor had been removed. By focusing radiation more precisely on the place where the original tumor occurred, says Dr. Silvia Formenti, chairwoman of radiation oncology at New York University School of Medicine, "we think we can make radiation better and easier for the patient...
Another thing you get as a cancer patient is a lot of football-coach patter. "You can beat this; you can win; you're strong; you're tough; get psyched." I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing. The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer...
...late Alice Trillin wrote some brilliant essays on being a cancer patient, and I found her theory of "the good student" especially helpful. When you are not doing well at cancer--barfing and getting bad blood tests and generally not sailing through the whole thing with grace and panache--you have a tendency to think, Help, I'm flunking cancer, as though it were your fault. Your doctor also tends to look at you as though he is disappointed. Especially if you start...
...tell you, my wife was fantastic. The meaning of tough love comes from my wife. [I would say,] "Honey, I would like to have breakfast in bed tomorrow." [She would reply,] "Breakfast in bed? Sleep in the kitchen." She knew when to be tough, and she was very patient. We have been married for 48 years. In two more years, inshallah, as the Arabs say, God willing, I'm going to propose to her again, and we will have a second wedding...
...Garden may not be a page-turner, but Bock's prose lures the reader along through smooth, sculpted sentences full of rich detail and subtle meditation. With patient intensity he weaves characters that are particularly relevant now, revealing how victor and vanquished, both burned by the shock waves of horrific events, must both become survivors...