There is a comforting mantra my mother-in-law would often share in challenging times: “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” It is often attributed to John Lennon or Oscar Wilde. On the surface, it sounds like a bit of “toxic positivity”, the kind of thing you see…
Before I got sick, I read the story of a physician whose daughter was complaining of persistent headaches so she took her in for an MRI thinking the likelihood of it showing anything serious was extremely low. The radiologist that read the exam called her back immediately as a professional curtesy and told her that…
Hope is often discussed as a fixed point on the horizon, but for those of us navigating the complexities of a life-altering diagnosis, it is far more fluid. It is a moving target that evolves with every scan, phone call and season. What begins as a desperate plea for a negative biopsy eventually transforms into…