Saturday, November 5, 2011

Diagnosis: Terminal

She had asked for more weapons to fend off the enemy for another while. The oncologist sketched a circle, representing her head. He drew another circle, just inside the first. He used a few strokes of his pencil to shade in the area between the 2 circles. "The cancer cells," he explained, " are here, swirling around in the fluid layer outside the brain. If it were a ball, (tumor) we could treat it, but not in this area." Who could be haunted by anything worse?