Discovering personal strength by braving winds of mortality
HERE I offer my reflections on what it means to live with the loss of your mother and also to live with the knowledge that you might eventually be diagnosed with the disease that assaulted her body and ended in her death. The primary message that I hope to send to all of my readers is that it is possible, and even not too unpleasant, to live with memories of your mother's agonizing death and with radical uncertainty about the way in which you will die. For some of you, your thoughts will turn immediately to cancer. That is not my story. Mine instead is this.